1975 Map of Rocky Mount

About this map

Rocky Mount serves as the central hub of this mid-1970s orthophotoquad, where the city's dense urban grid is visible against the surrounding agricultural lands of Nash and Edgecombe counties. The aerial photography, captured in April 1975, provides a literal view of the landscape rather than a traditional topographic illustration, revealing the exact patterns of development, forest stands, and cleared fields at the time. To the north, the smaller settlement of Battleboro is distinct, while Sharpsburg lies at the southern edge of the survey area. This photographic record, produced in cooperation with the Soil Conservation Service, emphasizes the transition between the established city core and the sprawling rural outskirts, capturing the state of the North Carolina coastal plain just before the final decades of the twentieth century.