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1961 Map of Young

Name: 1961 Topographic Map of Young
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1975
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1975

About this map

Young and its surrounding countryside are defined by a complex network of waterways that eventually feed the Trinity River along the northeast boundary of Freestone County. In the early 1960s, this rural landscape was marked by small community anchors, particularly churches that often shared grounds with local burial sites, such as Rehobath Cem Ch and Round Prairie Ch. The presence of the Stewards Mill Oil Field in the northwest and a Gravel Pit near Bethel Ch suggests a landscape where traditional agriculture and newer resource extraction overlapped.

Fences and field lines are meticulously documented across the terrain, illustrating the land use patterns between heavily wooded branches like Malone Branch and Big Brown Creek. These details, alongside family-linked locations like Hodge Lodge, provide a clear picture of the mid-century rural Texas infrastructure. For genealogists, the mapping of Chancellor Cem and Hickory Grove Cem offers specific coordinate-level data for ancestral research in this corner of the state.