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1968 Map of White Cross

Name: 1968 Topographic Map of White Cross
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1982
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1982

About this map

The community of White Cross serves as the focal point for this rural landscape in the 1960s, a region defined by its numerous country churches and timbered ridges. Small settlements and named crossroads like Orange Grove and Dodsons Crossroads are interconnected by a network of winding roads, reflecting a late-twentieth-century rural economy. The topography is marked by several prominent heights, including Thompson Mtn and Pickards Mtn, which overlook a dense drainage system of creeks such as Cane Creek and Morgan Creek.

Genealogists and local historians will find significant value in the distribution of religious landmarks, ranging from Orange Chapel Ch and Clover Garden Ch to Alston Grove Ch. The presence of several quarries near Teer and an industrial Pipeline cutting through the northern hills indicates the localized extraction and utility infrastructure that quietly altered this Piedmont landscape between the initial 1964 survey and the 1980s revisions.