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1956 Map of Stone Mountain

Name: 1956 Topographic Map of Stone Mountain
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1974
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1974

About this map

The prominent quartz monzonite dome of Stone Mountain serves as the central landmark for this DeKalb County region during a period of rapid suburban expansion. To the west and north, settlements like Tucker, Clarkston, and the small municipality of Pine Lake show significant development, with purple-tinted overprints indicating urban growth identified in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This growth is anchored by a network of established corridors, including the Seaboard Coast Line and the Georgia Railroad, which cut across the landscape toward Atlanta.

Local history is preserved in the numerous community landmarks scattered between the rising residential streets. Researchers can locate long-standing institutions such as Rehoboth Ch, Mt Pleasant Ch, and Ebenezer Ch, alongside the Stone Mountain Memorial Petroglyphs on the mountain's flank. The terrain is defined by the headwaters of the Snapfinger Creek and Indian Creek systems, which feed into smaller reservoirs like Lake Charles and Kenilworth Lake as the area transitioned from a rural granite-quarrying and farming district into a vital part of the metropolitan corridor.