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1978 Map of Surginer

Name: 1978 Topographic Map of Surginer
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1979
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1979

About this map

Small rural crossroads and scattered church congregations define the landscape along the Marengo Co Wilcox Co line in the late 1970s. The settlement of Surginer serves as a central point, anchored by the Union Grove Ch and nearby Sandpit and Claypits extractions. Further south, the village of Vineland marks a junction near the banks of Piney Woods Creek, while Magnolia Terminal sits to the north where the St Louis-San Francisco railroad cuts through the terrain.

Evidence of early community life is preserved through numerous family and congregational sites like Wesley Chapel, Christian Hope Ch, and Arbor Cem. The topography is etched by a dense network of watercourses, including Baptizing Creek and Turkey Creek, which navigate the elevation changes around Moores Valley. For those tracing local genealogy or land use, the placement of the Shiloh Lookout Tower and isolated cemeteries like Hosea Cem provides specific geographic anchors for 20th-century family homesteads.