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1961 Map of Tamina

Name: 1961 Topographic Map of Tamina
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1962
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1962

About this map

The Missouri Pacific railroad corridor anchors the settlement of Tamina, a community defined in the early 1960s by its central Tamina Ch and Tamina Cem. This southern Montgomery County landscape is a mix of dense timber and active resource extraction, with the W G Jones State Forest occupying the northwest and the Crystal Field oil operations dotting the northeast. The winding West Fork San Jacinto River and its complex system of oxbows and sloughs, such as Bird Lake and Barefoot Lake, dominate the eastern half of the survey area.

Local infrastructure is concentrated along Needham Road and Rayford Road, serving smaller hubs like Rayford and Johnson. The map documents a watershed in transition, where established timberlands and oil fields meet the creeping footprint of small-scale rural residential development near Falvey Memorial Ch and Glen Lake. Numerous creeks, including White Oak Creek and Spring Creek, carve through the terrain, highlighting the area's natural drainage before the surge of modern suburbanization.