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1962 Map of Crowder

Name: 1962 Topographic Map of Crowder
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1970
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1970

About this map

The Choctaw Chickasaw Boundary Line cuts diagonally across this Delta landscape, a surveyor's mark of history that persists alongside the complex hydrology of the Tallahatchie River and Yocona River. The early 1960s environment is defined by an intricate network of oxbows and cypress brakes, including Duck Roost Lake, Croudip Lake, and Burnt Brake. This web of water is managed by the massive Panola Quitman Floodway, which runs straight through the terrain south of Crowder.

Cultural life is anchored by numerous rural congregations and schools, such as Beautiful Zion Church, Morning Star Ch, and Sherman Creek Sch. The southeastern corner shows the developed outskirts of Charleston, while the surrounding bottomlands are dotted with evidence of earlier inhabitants at the Indian Mounds. From the small settlement of Robinson to the remote Paducah Well Ch, the map traces a transition from river-dependent agriculture to modern flood control engineering.