1998 Map of Bonnett Carre NE

About this map

Lake Pontchartrain dominates this aquatic landscape, where multiple parish boundaries meet in open water. The map records a complex administrative intersection involving St John the Baptist Parish, St Charles Parish, and Tangipahoa Parish. In the northwestern corner, a portion of the Manchac State Wildlife Management Area provides a terrestrial anchor for the quadrangle, illustrating the transition from swamp and wetlands into the expansive lake. Navigation is represented through a series of Light markers positioned across the water, delineating safe passage through these coastal reaches. Because much of the area consists of indefinite parish boundaries over open water, the sheet is an essential document for understanding the jurisdictional divisions of the Louisiana coast as they were defined at the close of the century.