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1986 Map of Caraway Lake

Name: 1986 Topographic Map of Caraway Lake
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1987
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1987

About this map

Joes Bayou meanders through the alluvial bottomlands of the Mississippi Delta, anchoring a landscape defined by an intricate network of secondary waterways and drainage systems. This mid-1980s survey captures the agricultural character of the region, where numerous oxbow lakes such as Caraway Lake and Long Lake reveal the historic migration of the river system. The map documents the extensive hydrological management of the era, visible in the straight lines of Ditch No 9 and Ditch No 1, which serve to drain the low-lying terrain between Tensas Bayou and Bayou Macon.

Evidence of rural life and early land divisions appears throughout the sheet, from the isolated Cem near the bayou's bend to the surveyor's lines marking the boundary between West Carroll Parish and East Carroll Parish. The presence of a Radio Tower and a pipeline corridor indicates the modernization of this traditionally deltaic environment, while features like Lost Island and Maiden Doe Bayou preserve the local nomenclature of this water-dominated geography.