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1964 Map of Turnpike

Name: 1964 Topographic Map of Turnpike
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1981
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1981

About this map

The Hatchie River dominates this West Tennessee landscape, winding through a complex network of wetlands and oxbow lakes where Haywood, Tipton, and Lauderdale counties meet. This river bottom environment is punctuated by numerous named water bodies like Horseshoe Lake, Round Hole Lake, and Bond Cutoff Lake, illustrating the shifting course of the river over decades. On the higher ground bordering the floodplain, small rural communities such as Orysa and Turnpike served as local anchors for the surrounding agricultural life.

Local history is preserved in a high density of rural institutions, including St Peters Ch and schools like Walker Sch and New Hope Sch. The map also identifies several family-named burial grounds, including the Macedonia Mercer Cem and Outlaw Cem, which are valuable for tracing genealogy in these rural districts. Roadways like Henning Road and Lebanon Road connect these dispersed landmarks across the undulating terrain north of the river bottom.