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2024 Map of Poplar Head

Name: 2024 Topographic Map of Poplar Head
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2024
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2024

About this map

Holmes Creek winds through the borderlands of Washington and Holmes counties, anchoring a landscape defined by expansive bays and wetland basins. The area’s settlement pattern is concentrated around several crossroads and rural clusters, including Poplar Head and Johnson Crossroad in the north and the outskirts of Vernon to the south. Significant for local genealogists, the map identifies several spiritual and burial sites such as the Pleasant Hill Freewill Baptist Church Cem and the Haddock Cem near the southern boundary.

Water dominates the terrain, from the broad Pate Lake in the west to smaller basins like Cooks Mill Pond and Becton Pond. The presence of numerous named "bays" — such as Lolly Head Bay, Boggy Bay, and Eighty Acre Bay — suggests a characteristically low-lying Florida Panhandle environment. Transportation is primarily rural, with established routes like Douglas Ferry Rd and S Waukesha St connecting these disparate settlements across the creek-fed lowlands.