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2011 Map of Society Hill

Name: 2011 Topographic Map of Society Hill
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2011
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2011

About this map

Society Hill serves as the focal point for this landscape in Macon County, characterized by a complex network of small waterways and family-named cemeteries. The drainage patterns of Opintlocco Creek and Uchee Creek define the local topography, punctuated by numerous agricultural and private impoundments such as Groce Lake and Kelly Pond Number Two. For those tracing local heritage, the density of burial grounds like Whatley Cemetery, Holt Cemetery, and Cobbs Cemetery provides a detailed footprint of the area's ancestral settlements.

Institutional presence is evident at the Agricultural Engineering Unit Auburn University, showing the region's ongoing connection to technical farming research. Further north, Whatley Cross Road marks a secondary settlement node near the confluence of Cossey Branch and Towns Creek. The map details a transition from traditional rural homesteads to modern land management, where named dams like Jacobs Dam and Huskeys Dam manage the flow across this undulating Alabama interior.