2011 Map of Portersville

About this map

Collinsville anchors the southern portion of this Alabama landscape, where the Collinsville Post Office and several burial grounds like Kerley Cemetery and Collins Cemetery serve as historical markers for the community. The terrain is defined by a series of prominent gaps and coves, including Portersville Gap, Wesson Gap, and Clayton Cove, which dictated the early movement and settlement patterns between Big Wills Creek and Mush Creek. Small rural centers such as Lebanon, Portersville, and Mount Vernon are linked by a network of county roads that navigate around landmarks like Drake Hill and Wooten Hill. For family historians, the presence of numerous small cemeteries such as Downer Cemetery, Killian Cemetery, and the Smith Chapel Cemetery near Smith Chapel provides vital geographic context for locating ancestral homesteads across the valley.