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1950 Map of Rives

Name: 1950 Topographic Map of Rives
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1981
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1981

About this map

The Illinois Central Gulf railroad serves as a central spine through this West Tennessee landscape, anchoring the community of Rives and several smaller agricultural rail stops. This 1950 survey, which received photorevisions in 1980, documents a region defined by its complex bottomland hydrology. The confluence of the North Fork Obion River and the Rutherford Fork Obion River creates a broad, marshy basin characterized by oxbow features like Horseshoe Lake and Long Lake. Much of this wetland area is protected within the Gooch Wildlife Management Area, showing the importance of the river forks to local geography.

Upland from the river bottoms, smaller settlements and landmarks such as Moffatt, Polk, and McCutchen Heights are distributed along the ridge lines. Local heritage is preserved in the location of rural congregations and burial grounds, including Pleasant Hill Ch, Central Ch, and Sardis Cem. The map provides a clear record of the transition from the river-dependent lowlands to the managed timber and agricultural lands of Obion County.