2016 Map of Somerville

About this map

Somerville, the Fayette County seat, serves as the primary hub of this West Tennessee landscape, where the town grid meets the engineered flow of the Loosahatchie River Canal. The map reveals a high density of rural burial grounds and church sites that anchor the surrounding farmland, including Smiths Chapel Cem and Mount Pisgah Cem near the smaller settlement of Pattersonville. These features, along with names like Ebenezer Cem and Asbury Cem, suggest long-standing community centers tied to the area's agricultural history. The terrain is defined by a network of drainage creeks such as Bennetts Cr and Howell Cr that feed southward toward the Wolf River bottomlands. The presence of Hawks Nest Airport in the southwest corner marks a modern transition in this largely traditional landscape of timber and row crops.