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1969 Map of Cow Bayou

Name: 1969 Topographic Map of Cow Bayou
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1982
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1982

About this map

The Atchafalaya Basin Floodway dominates this landscape, showing the complex hydrologic management of the late 1960s. This territory, split by the Iberville Parish St Martin Parish line, is defined by an intricate network of waterways including Bayou des Glaises, Bayou Maringouin, and Straight Bayou. The map illustrates a transitional period in the basin's industrial development, with established sites like the Bayou des Glaises Oil and Gas Field and the Klondike Field interspersed among the cypress-tupelo bottomlands.

Water management infrastructure is central to the area, evidenced by the East Protection Levee and the Whisky Bay Pilot Channel. Small settlements and specific landmarks like Rycade and Cow Island provide anchor points for genealogists and local historians tracking the human footprint within the basin. The presence of numerous pipelines and proposed locations suggests the intensifying extraction efforts alongside the natural flow of the Upper Grand River.