2020 Map of Bogalusa West

About this map

Bogalusa serves as the eastern anchor of this Washington Parish study, where the residential streets and grid of the city give way to the wooded, creek-fed terrain of the Florida Parishes. The landscape is defined by the winding course of Bogue Lusa Cr and its numerous tributaries, including Ice Water Br and Yellow Br. These watercourses dictated the early settlement patterns of the region, which remain evident in the placement of numerous family and community burial grounds such as McGehee Cem and Corkern Cem. To the west, the rural community of Plainview and the vicinity of Jacksonville Springs represent the enduring agrarian character of the area outside the urban center. The map documents an extensive network of parish roads that follow the high ground between drainages like Coburn Cr and Peters Cr, providing a detailed look at the rural infrastructure in the early twenty-first century.