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1967 Map of Spicewood

Name: 1967 Topographic Map of Spicewood
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1969
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1969

About this map

The Colorado River landscape of the Texas Hill Country is captured here during a transitional era of water management and rural development. The reservoir known as Lake Travis dominates the northeast corner, with several areas marked as subject to controlled inundation along the Turkey Bend shoreline. These changing water levels redefined the local geography, affecting historic crossings and landmarks near Spicewood.

Away from the water, the terrain is defined by prominent rises like Cedar Mountain and Shovel Mountain, with the winding Cypress Creek flowing past Cypress Mill. For genealogists, the map preserves the locations of several burial grounds, including Holloway Cem and Fowler Cem. Modern infrastructure of the late 1960s is evident in the alignment of Highway Seventyone and the private Parker Ranch Landing Strip, showing how this region of the Blanco and Burnet county line was beginning to modernize.