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1950 Map of Ransom Stand

Name: 1950 Topographic Map of Ransom Stand
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1977
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1977

About this map

Ransom Stand serves as a central landmark in this 1950 topographical study, situated at the crossroads of early transport routes and family-named hollows along the Tennessee-Alabama border. The landscape is defined by the steep relief of McFalls Ridge and the deeply etched drainage systems of Horse Creek and Second Right Fork Lige Creek. The map records a rural social fabric organized around small congregations and family burial grounds, including McFalls Ch, Second Creek Church, and Centenary Cem.

A sense of elevation and oversight is represented by the Lutts Lookout Tower, while the eastern edge of the map is bordered by the historic Natchez Trace Parkway. These features, alongside numerous named geographic recesses like Jeffery Hollow and Carroll Hollow, offer genealogists and local historians a precise look at the land division and community settlement patterns in Wayne County during the mid-20th century.