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1972 Map of Zetus

Name: 1972 Topographic Map of Zetus
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1974
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1974

About this map

The Brookhaven Oil Field dominates the eastern landscape of this early 1970s survey, illustrating the industrial footprint of petroleum extraction in Lincoln County. The land is marked by numerous Gravel Pits and a winding network of watercourses including Mc Call Creek, Beaver Creek, and the southern Hurricane Lake. A significant historical Treaty Boundary cuts across the northern terrain, indicating old land divisions that predated the established settlement patterns of communities like Zetus, Vaughn, and Cobbs.

Social life is anchored by a dense concentration of rural houses of worship, such as Friendship Ch, New Salem Ch, and Hawkins Chapel. The Illinois Central Gulf railroad provides a primary transportation corridor through the center of the quadrangle, passing near the settlement of Williams. The presence of the Lincoln Lookout Tower and multiple cemeteries like Old Macedonia Cem offers valuable reference points for genealogists and local historians documenting the 20th-century Mississippi interior.