1964 Map of Pilot Grove

About this map

The agrarian landscape of North Texas is captured here in the mid-1960s, centered on the convergence of the West Fork Pilot Grove Creek and East Fork Pilot Grove Creek. This period reveals a rural community defined by small settlements like Pilot Grove and Cannon, where the presence of numerous Gravel Pits indicates the local extraction industry. Genealogists will find significant detail in the distribution of family-named burial grounds and houses of worship, including Worden Cem, Luper Cem, and Binion Cem. The eastern portion of the sheet is marked by the transit corridor of the Missouri Kansas Texas railroad, which skirts the boundary where Grayson, Fannin, and Collin counties meet. From the crossroads at Sedalia to the scattered rural congregations such as Starks Chapel Ch and Bethel Ch, the map documents the persistent layout of small-town Texas before modern suburban expansion began to reach this corner of the state.