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1957 Map of Dead Tiger Creek

Name: 1957 Topographic Map of Dead Tiger Creek
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1959
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1959

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Hancock County's interior wetlands and timberlands are defined by the winding course of Catahoula Creek and its many tributaries in this late 1950s survey. The landscape is a network of sprawling marshy depressions known locally as bays, including Sam Farve Bay, Double Bay, and Wolf Bay. These features, alongside Dead Tiger Creek, suggest a terrain shaped by heavy seasonal drainage and lowland pine forests.

Social life in this rural corner of Mississippi centered on small community landmarks like Harmony Ch and Bienville Ch. The presence of the Flattop Sch (Abandoned) by 1957 indicates a shift in local education patterns, perhaps as smaller rural schoolhouses were consolidated. Other distinctive local names like Pigeon Roost Branch and Bacon Bayou reflect the early settler and hunting history of the Pearl River basin region.