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1946 Map of Portersville

Name: 1946 Topographic Map of Portersville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1958
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1958

About this map

The Southern Railway and U. S. Highway 11 cut a sharp diagonal through this 1946 landscape, tracing the narrow corridor of Little Wills Valley between the prominent rises of Lookout Mountain and Valley Ridge. This transit-oriented settlement pattern is anchored by the town of Collinsville in the southwest and Portersville at the center, where the valley floor provides a rare level path through the complex topography of DeKalb County.

Local life in the mid-1940s is detailed through numerous rural landmarks, including Longshore Mill and the Brown Fell Sch. The map records a dense network of family and community spaces, from Graham Chapel and McNutt Memorial Ch to several small burial grounds like Plunket Cem and Killian Cem. The terrain is marked by distinctive gaps such as Wesson Gap and Portersville Gap, which historically dictated the movement of residents between the high ridges and the agricultural valleys.