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1974 Map of Silas

Name: 1974 Topographic Map of Silas
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1977
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1977

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Bolinger and Silas anchor the southern portion of this Choctaw County landscape, where the St Louis-San Francisco railroad cuts a north-south line through the timbered terrain. The northern reaches near Gilbertown show an active extraction economy, marked by several Oil Wells and a Sandpit situated between Little Mill Creek and Mill Creek. This 1974 field-checked survey reveals a high density of rural religious and burial sites that serve as vital markers for local family history, including Springbank Cem, Harrison Cem, and the Seventh-day Adventist Cem.

A network of named watercourses like Souwilpa Creek and Okatuppa Creek define the drainage of the area, punctuated by small settlements such as Barrytown and Old Samuel. The inclusion of the Shady Grove Sch and churches like Coopers Chapel and Black Creek Ch illustrates the distributed nature of this mid-century Alabama community, where social life was organized around the intersections of country roads and creek branches.