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1993 Map of Selma

Name: 1993 Topographic Map of Selma
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1996
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1996

About this map

The Mississippi River creates a broad corridor between Missouri and Illinois in the 1990s, defining a landscape of low-lying islands and bluff-side settlements. On the Missouri side, the community of Selma and the Selma (Sta) sit near the riverbank, with the rugged uplands to the west marked by family-named landmarks like Buck Knob and numerous hollows such as Selma Hollow and Doolin Hollow.

Genealogists will find this sheet particularly valuable for its high density of rural burial sites, including Cook Cemetery, Donnell Cem, and Wagoner Cemetery. The industry of the era is evident through scattered Pit and Quarry operations, while the Illinois side near Maeystown Sta shows the agricultural drainage patterns of the floodplains. Large river features like Calico Island and Rush Island illustrate the shifting nature of the river boundary during this period of the late twentieth century.