1969 Map of Baxterville SW

About this map

The Baxterville Oil and Gas Field dominates the eastern landscape of this survey, where a complex network of roads and pipelines cuts through the piney woods of the Mississippi-Louisiana border. To the west, the Pearl River forms a natural boundary, winding through bottomlands below elevations like Stony Point Hill and Clay Hill. Rural life in the late 1960s is anchored by a series of country churches and small family burial grounds, including Sweet Home Ch, New Hope Ch, and the Ford Cem. Industrial history is visible in the north along an Old Railroad Grade and several Gravel Pits near the Pinebur Lookout Tower. This survey documents a working landscape where timber, petroleum extraction, and small-scale agriculture converge along the drainage of Rawls Creek and Clear Creek.