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2016 Map of Spring City

Name: 2016 Topographic Map of Spring City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2016
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2016

About this map

Watts Bar Lake dominates this Rhea County landscape, its sprawling waters encircling numerous named landforms like Barker Island and Doc Smith Island. To the west, the Cumberland Escarpment rises sharply towards Walden Ridge, defining the western edge of the Tennessee River Valley. This modern survey reflects decades of topographical change following the mid-century impoundment of the river, which submerged former landmarks while creating new shoreline communities such as Lakewood Village and Apollo Shores.

For genealogists, the map is remarkably dense with family-named cemeteries and landmarks. Clusters of burial sites, including the Rhea Springs Cem and Leuty Cem on Cemetery Island, offer critical links to the area's pre-inundation history. The settlement of Spring City serves as a central hub, while smaller locales like Lorraine and Saint Clair dot the corridors between the ridge and the reservoir. Traces of the region's agricultural and rural past are preserved in the naming of places like Cawood Hollow and Godsey Hollow.