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2022 Map of Purley

Name: 2022 Topographic Map of Purley
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2022
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2022

About this map

The Hopkins and Franklin County line bisects this region of Northeast Texas, where the landscape is defined by the headwaters of the Cypress Creek basin. The small community of Purley serves as a local hub near the eastern edge, anchored by the Purley Baptist Church and its accompanying Purley Baptist Church Cem. A dense network of rural routes, including Farm Rd 900 W and FM 3105, connects numerous family and community burial grounds such as Greenwood Cem, Liberty Cem, and Pine Hill Cem, suggesting a long-established pattern of small-plot farming and kinship networks.

Water plays a central role in the topography, with Big Cypress Cr and Little Cypress Cr flowing toward the prominent Lake Cypress Springs. In the southern reach, Lake Franklin and the Foggy Bottom Airport represent more modern developments in a territory that remains primarily agricultural and residential. The terrain is intricate, marked by numerous small tributaries like Stouts Cr and Wilcox Br that feed the larger creek systems through the clay-heavy soils of the region.