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1939 Map of Clifton

Name: 1939 Topographic Map of Clifton
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1949
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1949

About this map

The Bogue Chitto River winds through the heart of Washington Parish, just south of the Louisiana-Mississippi Boundary Line, where the landscape is defined by its reliance on the Gulf Mobile and Ohio railroad. Small rural hubs such as Warnerton, Clifton, and Jamieson serve as anchors for a community deeply rooted in its local institutions. The distribution of family-named cemeteries, including Bankston Cem, Brumfield Cem, and Simmons Cem, suggests long-established kinship ties and ancestral landholdings common to this part of the Florida Parishes.

Religious life is centered at New Jerusalem Ch and St James Ch, while education is dispersed across several country schoolhouses like John Smith Sch and Hays Creek Sch. The presence of an Old Gravel Pit near the southern edge indicates the local extraction industry, while the intricate network of state highways, such as State Highway No 34, connects these small settlements across the creeks and branches that feed the Bogue Chitto.