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1936 Map of Tennessee City

Name: 1936 Topographic Map of Tennessee City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1936
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1936

About this map

Tennessee City sits at a critical geographic and infrastructure junction where the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis railway and Highway No 70 traverse the Tennessee Divide. This mid-1930s survey, compiled from aerial photography by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the USGS, reveals a landscape defined by its complex drainage network, with countless hollows like Jaybird Hollow and Adam Hollow feeding into the Hurricane Creek system.

Social and civic life is anchored by a network of rural schoolhouses and churches, including Jason Chapel Sch, Providence Sch, and Few Chapel. The emergence of the State No 1 Transmission Line and other power infrastructure across the Humphreys Dickson County Line signals the modernization of the rural South during this era. Genealogists will find particular value in the precisely marked family-named cemeteries such as Hudgins Cem and Mc Elhaney Cem scattered throughout the valleys.