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1952 Map of Whitley City

Name: 1952 Topographic Map of Whitley City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1954
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1954

About this map

Whitley City serves as the focal point for this McCreary County landscape, which is heavily shaped by the coal and timber industries of the early 1950s. The presence of Strip Mines and the intersection of the Southern and Kentucky and Tennessee railroads underscore a local economy built on extraction and transport. Beyond the industrial corridors, the area is defined by tight-knit communities such as Stearns and Pine Knot, where family life centered on institutions like Hickory Grove Ch and Round Top Sch.

The eastern portion of the sheet is dominated by the Cumberland National Forest, characterized by the branching drainages of Laurel Creek and Marsh Creek. Small rural settlements like Gilreath and Silerville are connected by narrow winding roads, while family burial grounds such as Carter Cem and Holloway Cem provide essential data points for local genealogists studying the families of the southern Kentucky coalfields.