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1983 Map of Rome

Name: 1983 Topographic Map of Rome
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1984
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1984

About this map

The agricultural Delta landscape is defined here by the winding Upper Quiver River and Lower Quiver River, where flat fields are broken by remnants of bottomland hydrology like Blue Lake and Staten Brake. The infrastructure of the Mississippi State Department of Corrections at Parchman dominates the western portion of the map, while the Illinois Central Gulf railroad line serves the small communities of Rome and Minot.

Evidence of a deeply rooted rural society is seen in the numerous country churches and burial grounds scattered throughout the floodplain, including Ebenezer Cemetery and Oakland Mt Olive Church. These landmarks, along with family-named features like the Strickland Landing Strip and settlements like Flautt, reflect the region's mid-20th-century dependence on both rail transport and river systems before the intensive modern consolidation of the land.