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1959 Map of Rodentown

Name: 1959 Topographic Map of Rodentown
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1976
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1976

About this map

Sand Mountain dominates this landscape, its plateau surface marked by a network of rural settlements and family-named churches. This 1959 survey, updated with 1974 photorevisions, reveals a community structure centered around small nodes like Rodentown, Painter, and Whitesboro. The terrain is deeply divided by the descent from the mountain into Little Sand Valley and Big Wills Valley, connected by local thoroughfares such as Georgia Road and the Old Tennessee Valley Road.

Genealogists will find a wealth of local landmarks, including several rural congregations and burial sites such as Liberty Hill Church, Smith Chapel, and Hibbs Cem. The map illustrates the 1970s expansion of the Sardis city boundary and the persistent agricultural and industrial footprints of the era, from a Substation near the mountain's edge to the scattered farmsteads near Double Bridges and Belcher Gap.