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2024 Map of Utica East

Name: 2024 Topographic Map of Utica East
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2024
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2024

About this map

Utica serves as the primary hub in this central Mississippi landscape, where the street grid of Depot St and E Main St meets the outlying rural reaches of Hinds and Copiah counties. The terrain is defined by a dense network of drainage, with Tallahalla Creek and White Oak Creek carving through the wooded hills. These watercourses historically dictated the placement of early settlements and family lands, visible in the clusters near Chapel Hill and Carmichael.

Genealogical interest is centered on the Morning Star Cem and the sprawling campus of Hinds Community College on the southwestern edge of the survey. The transition from the Hinds County line into Copiah County to the south reveals a landscape increasingly dominated by small creek branches like Nixon Branch and Saddlers Creek, illustrating the rural character of the region as it appeared in the early 21st century.