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1967 Map of Chef Menteur

Name: 1967 Topographic Map of Chef Menteur
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1973
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1973

About this map

Chef Menteur Pass serves as the primary corridor of this coastal landscape, connecting Lake Pontchartrain to Lake Borgne. The 1967 survey captures a critical period of infrastructure development in the wetlands east of New Orleans, where the Intracoastal Waterway is marked as under construction. This hydraulic engineering is mirrored by a network of levee systems protecting the emerging residential fingers of Venetian Isles and the older settlement at Chef Menteur.

Historical defense and transit patterns are visible where the Louisville and Nashville railroad crosses the pass near the Fort Macomb (Ruins). The map details a labyrinth of tidal hydrology, including Bayou Sauvage and Bayou Gentilly, before modern drainage and channelization fully altered the natural flow of these marshes. The presence of a pumping station and a sewage disposal pond underscores the mid-century efforts to reclaim and manage this low-lying territory.