{"id":1307,"date":"2012-09-05T17:06:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T21:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion2\/?page_id=1307"},"modified":"2021-09-21T21:40:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T02:40:51","slug":"topography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/topography\/","title":{"rendered":"Topography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Topography and Migration, Obion County, Tennessee<\/h3>\n<h4>Area and Topography<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>County area is about 560 square miles, 1\/3 hilly, 2\/3 rolling and level.<\/li>\n<li>Thirty-six acres once under Reelfoot Lake, Lake has receded, acreage isn&#8217;t available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Migration<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>First settlers arrived in wagon trains.<\/li>\n<li>They cut trees, built rafts and floated their wagons across the Tennessee River.<\/li>\n<li>Flatboat travel via the Cumberland-Ohio-Mississippi and up the Obion River was impossible because the mouth of the and logs.<\/li>\n<li>Some settlers came across Kentucky and settled near or on the Kentucky-Tennessee border.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Border Counties<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>On the north by Fulton County, Kentucky<\/li>\n<li>On the east by Weakley County, Tennessee<\/li>\n<li>On the south by Gibson and Dyer Counties, Tennessee<\/li>\n<li>On the west by the Mississippi River until Lake County was formed in 1870<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Border Cities<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Fulton and South Fulton on the Kentucky-Tennessee Border<\/li>\n<li>Kenton on the Obion-Gibson County Line<\/li>\n<li>Trimble in Dyer County abuts and may cross over the southern border of Obion County.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Indian Mounds and Artifacts<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Mounds at the Turnpike in Obion County and other artifacts indicate that the Chickasaw and Indians hunted the area because of the good water source and a natural salt lake ground.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tennessee Delta<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>100-mile stretch between the Mississippi River flowing south and the Tennessee River flowing north.<\/li>\n<li>The head waters of the Obion, Forked Deer, and Hatchie rivers are a short distance from the Tennessee River and flow west into the Mississippi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Western Gateway<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Obion and Lake Counties became a gateway to Missouri and Arkansas.<\/li>\n<li>Border State searches could possibly locate a missing link.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topography and Migration, Obion County, Tennessee Area and Topography County area is about 560 square miles, 1\/3 hilly, 2\/3 rolling and level. Thirty-six acres once under Reelfoot Lake, Lake has receded, acreage isn&#8217;t available. Migration First settlers arrived in wagon <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/topography\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/2406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/obion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}