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1955 Map of Turnersville

Name: 1955 Topographic Map of Turnersville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1956
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1956

About this map

Turnersville sits at the headwaters of the Middle Bosque Creek system, anchoring a rural landscape defined by the winding drainages of Central Texas in the mid-1950s. The area is characterized by small dispersed settlements like Whitehall and Pickens, connected by a network of unimproved roads that navigate the creek valleys and limestone uplands. This survey, based on 1955 aerial photography, captures the cultural footprint of the land through its rural institutions, including Liberty Ch and Coryell Valley Ch.

Evidence of local industry and early land use is visible in features like the Caliche Pit and numerous family-named water bodies such as Goldys Branch and Thorp Branch. Genealogists will find significant value in the documentation of local burial grounds, including the Turnersville Cem, Miller Cem, and Coffee Cem, which serve as quiet markers of the ranching and farming families who settled this portion of the Bosque and Coryell county line.