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2018 Map of Pickensville

Name: 2018 Topographic Map of Pickensville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2018
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2018

About this map

Pickensville sits at a critical bend of the Tombigbee River, serving as a focal point for this borderland where Alabama meets Mississippi. The landscape is defined by the massive infrastructure of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, which reshaped the river's natural course with the Pickensville Cut Off and the Coalfire Cut Off. These engineering feats bypassed older river features like Bell Ford Bar and Ford Bar, though many original oxbows and sloughs like Clear Lake remain.

Genealogists will find a high concentration of burial sites throughout the territory, including the Saint John, Upper Cem, and Lower Cem near the primary settlement, as well as the Old Christian Love Cem and Roberson Cem tucked into the rural west. The map also documents smaller communities such as Aubrey and Memphis, the latter located near Carraways Bluff and its own Memphis Cem, illustrating the settlement patterns of Pickens County and Noxubee County during this era.