Aerial Gallery 6
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This is a view looking directly
northeast from the Mount Sylvia Community in northeastern Titus
County, not too far south of White Oak Creek. The diagonal line
going from the bottom right towards the upper center is a power
line that runs from just west of De Kalb to about halfway between
Winfield/Miller's Cove and Mount Vernon. The county road in the
lower righthand corner is part of a road to Mount Sylvia that
turns off Texas Highway 1402 (just out of view towards the left).
The line or break in the wooded area at the top of the photo,
perpendicular to the power line, is probably Texas Highway 71
which runs from its intersection with U.S. 259 south of the Sulphur
River to Sugar Hill, Talco, Sulphur Bluff and Commerce. From the
intersection of the county road and the power line in the lower
right to the dam site for the lesser Marvin Nichols Reservoir
on White Oak Creek is about 9 miles. All of this land would be
flooded or lost to mitigation for this lesser Marvin Nichols Reservoir.
River Crest Lake northwest of Talco
can be seen in the distance at the top of this photo, about nine
miles from White Oak Creek. This is a view looking north-northwest
from the Titus-Franklin County Line, and White Oak Creek can be
seen at the bottom, flowing west to east. The Sulphur River is
located between here and River Crest Lake. The curving county
road at the middle right deadends at White Oak Creek a couple
of miles north of Texas Highway 1896, which would be directly
south (behind the camera) and out of view. Talco is in the distance
in the extreme upper righthand portion of the photo, about six
miles away from this view of White Oak Creek.
This is a general view in Franklin
County of the Talco Oil Field due-south about six miles from River
Crest Lake, seen at the top of the photo. Texas Highway 71 runs
from west to east (left to right) between the oil field and River
Crest Lake and would separate the northern (greater) from the
southern (lesser) Marvin Nichols Reservoirs. All of this land
would be flooded or lost to mitigation for these two needless
and destructive reservoirs. (What are the peculiar circles in
the center of this photograph? UFO landing sites?! Numerous UFOs
have been spotted over this part of Northeast Texas. I've seen
quite a few myself, including a couple of those so-called "silver
cigars".)
This is another northeast view of
Franklin County. Cobb Jones Creek, which flows west to east into
White Oak Creek, would be just southwest of here (behind the camera),
about two miles east-northeast of the Lakeview Community. River
Crest Lake can again be seen in the upper-right distance, about
ten miles away. Much of this land would be lost to mitigation
for the Marvin Nichols Reservoirs.
This is a northeast view from western
Franklin County. Texas Highway 37 from Mount Vernon to Clarksville
runs across the top portion of the photo, right (south) to left
(north). The smaller white-colored roads are private roads that
lead south and southwest from the main county roads to White Oak
Creek, southwest of here (again behind the camera). The logjam
shown in Gallery 4 would be about five miles north (left) of the
upper center of this photo. Some of this land would certainly
be lost to mitigation for the Marvin Nichols and George Parkhouse
Reservoirs.
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