2018 Map of Bellewood

About this map

Bellewood and Castleman anchor this Mississippi Delta landscape, where the geometry of modern agriculture meets a complex network of ancient waterways. The terrain is defined by the winding course of the Yazoo River and the Hard Cash Cutoff, surrounded by oxbow features and drainage systems like Jackson Bayou and Silver Creek. A distinctive grid of rural roads—bearing local family and descriptive names such as Easy Money Rd, Po Boy Rd, and Sloppy Deadening Rd—cuts across the low-lying basin. This 2018 survey illustrates the industrial scale of Delta farming, with large rectangular fields and aquaculture ponds dominating the area around the Belzoni Municipal Airport. Toward the southern edge, Gooden Lake and Hard Cash Lake remain as visible remnants of the river's historical meanders through Humphreys County.