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1972 Map of Thomson West

Name: 1972 Topographic Map of Thomson West
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1974
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1974

About this map

The city of Thomson serves as the hub of this early 1970s survey, where the concentrated street grid around the Courthouse and City Hall gives way to sprawling institutional and residential developments like Washington Heights. The map documents a period of growth as residential lanes such as Faubus St and Pineview Dr push toward the city limits. Just to the west, the rural landscape of the Warren-McDuffie county line is defined by a series of small, significant community markers.

Deeply rooted rural congregations and schools are scattered throughout the countryside, including Stony Grove Church, Cody Grove Church, and the Briarwood Academy. The railroad network remains a critical infrastructure piece, with the Georgia Railroad and Central of Georgia lines cutting through the terrain. Waterways like Childers Creek and Mattox Creek wind through the hills, providing natural drainage for the many small farms and homesteads that characterize the area around Mesena.