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1997 Map of Suffolk

Name: 1997 Topographic Map of Suffolk
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1999
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1999

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The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge dominates the eastern half of this landscape, its vast wetlands crisscrossed by a historic drainage network including Jericho Ditch, Hudnell Ditch, and Washington Ditch. The city of Suffolk serves as a transportation hub, where the Norfolk and Western and Seaboard Coast Line railroads converge near the headwaters of the Nansemond River.

Evidence of established community life is found in numerous rural landmarks, such as B T Washington High Sch and Cedar Hill Cem. Small settlements like Skeetertown and Nurney are connected by a web of routes including White Marsh Road and Hosier Road. The transition from the urban center of Suffolk to the sprawling marshes of Pocosin Swamp illustrates the region's reliance on both maritime commerce and the managed hydrology of the swamp's interior.