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1941 Map of Batchelor

Name: 1941 Topographic Map of Batchelor
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1944
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1944

About this map

The Mississippi River and its shifting hydrology dominate this landscape at the boundary of Pointe Coupee Parish and West Feliciana Parish. The map illustrates the dramatic engineered changes to the river's course, most notably the Raccourci Cut-Off 1848 which left behind the massive loop of the Raccourci Old River. Inland, the economy of the early 1940s is anchored by the Texas and Pacific RR and large agricultural holdings like Mains Plantation and Lacour Plantation.

Genealogists can trace a dense network of rural community life through numerous small churches and schools, such as Little Zion Ch, Good Faith Cem, and the Lower Latanache Sch. The northern portion of the sheet is marked by several camps near Angola, while settlements like Batchelor and Innis P.O. serve as central points for the surrounding bayou country and its intricate system of drainage channels, including Bayou Moreau and Bayou Latanache.