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2012 Map of Bancroft

Name: 2012 Topographic Map of Bancroft
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2012
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2012

About this map

The meandering Sabine River defines the borderlands of Beauregard Parish in this 2012 study, carving out complex oxbows and river bends like Snider Bend and Taylor Bend. The landscape is a hydraulic network of swamps and sloughs, where water bodies such as Sime Lake, Bose Lake, and Skinner Lake sit alongside the winding Big Slough. This region's economy and settlement patterns are clearly tied to both the timbered bottomlands and the subterranean resources of the Bancroft Oil Field and the North Bancroft Oil Field.

Family names are deeply etched into the local geography through a network of rural roads and land markers. The settlement of Bancroft serves as a central point, with the Spikes Cem and numerous family-named thoroughfares like Fred Spikes Rd and Webb Spikes Rd indicating long-standing ancestral ties to the land. The presence of the Skinner Lakes Oil Field in the west further illustrates the persistent industrial footprint in this quiet corner of the Louisiana-Texas line.