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1986 Map of Crossett

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

USGS Topo · Published 1986

About this map

Crossett and its industrial layout serve as the anchor for this mid-1980s landscape, where the timber and rail legacies of Ashley County meet the floodplain geography of the Mississippi Delta. The Missouri Pacific railroad connects numerous small settlements such as Montrose, Portland, and Parkdale, tracing a corridor through the flat agricultural lands between Bartholomew Bayou and the winding course of the Mississippi River.

Natural conservation and archaeology are prominent, with the Overflow National Wildlife Refuge and Cutoff Creek State Wildlife Management Area protecting significant wetlands. On the Mississippi side, Winterville Mounds State Park marks a historic indigenous landscape near the river's complex system of islands and cutoffs, including Woodstock Island and Archer Island. This survey captures a region defined by the transition from the pine forests of the west to the alluvial bottomlands and bayous of the east.