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1959 Map of West Point

Name: 1959 Topographic Map of West Point
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1986
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1986

About this map

The city of West Point serves as the industrial and transportation hub of this late-1950s landscape, positioned at the convergence of the Gulf Mobile and Ohio, Illinois Central, and Columbus and Greenville railroads. The town's layout is defined by its educational and civic institutions, including the campus of Mary Holmes Jr College, a local Fish Hatchery, and a prominent Radio Tower (WROB). Outside the urban center, the terrain is shaped by the winding courses of Chuquatonchee Creek and Tibbee Creek, which feed into the Tombigbee River along the eastern boundary.

Rural life is documented through a dense network of family-named cemeteries and community anchors like the Rosenwald Sch & Cem and Paine Chapel Sch & Ch. The presence of an Indian Mound near Tibbee Creek suggests a long history of human occupation in these bottomlands. Small settlements such as Strong and the river-adjacent Waverly are visible, along with industrial markings for Gravel Pit sites and Gas Wells that point to the era's local extraction economies.