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1950 Map of Yuma

Name: 1950 Topographic Map of Yuma
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1987
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1987

About this map

Natchez Trace State Forest and the Natchez Trace State Resort Park dominate the eastern half of this 1950s-era landscape, where the historic Natchez Trace route cuts through the wooded hills of West Tennessee. The western lowlands are defined by the Big Sandy River and its intricate network of drainage improvements, including the Sandy Canal and Roan Creek Canal. These engineering efforts transformed the river bottomlands near the community of Yuma and the Parker Crossroads Corporate Boundary.

Family history is deeply rooted here, with numerous rural burying grounds such as Enoghs Cem, Bacon Cem, and Dameron Cem scattered across the Carroll Co Henderson Co line. An Old Railroad Grade traces a path through the center of the sheet, providing a record of former transportation corridors that once linked Wildersville to the surrounding region before the modernization of the local road network.