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1963 Map of Porum

Name: 1963 Topographic Map of Porum
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1976
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1976

About this map

The Canadian River serves as the focal point of this Oklahoma landscape, illustrating a period of significant hydraulic transition. While the Midland Valley railroad tracks still skirt the eastern edge of Porum, the western portion of the map is defined by the emergence of Eufaula Lake. The survey captures the area just as the Eufaula Dam was being finalized, with blue hatching indicating terrain soon to be submerged by the rising reservoir.

Upland features reflect a history of small communities and rural industry, from the Sandy Ridge Sch to several scattered Shale Pits and a Strip Mine. Family-named landmarks such as Early Mountain, Tater Hill, and Taylor Bluff rise above the river bottomlands. Local genealogists will find several burial grounds noted, including Coleman Cem, Starr Cem, and Hi Early Cem, many of which sit near the margins of the expanding flood control project.