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1959 Map of Fordoche

Name: 1959 Topographic Map of Fordoche
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1962
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1962

About this map

Pointe Coupee Parish and its complex relationship with the Mississippi and Atchafalaya river systems are documented here during the late 1950s. The landscape is dominated by the Atchafalaya Basin Floodway, a massive engineering response to previous disasters like the Morganza Crevasse April 1890 and the Melville Crevasse. Between these floodways, small agricultural and energy-based settlements like Fordoche, Lottie, and Livonia thrive along the Texas & Pacific RR.

Industry and local heritage intersect at several points, such as the Argyle Plantation and the expanding petroleum sector visible at the Fordoche Oil and Gas Field and Sherburne Gas Field. The map reveals a deeply rooted community structure, evidenced by numerous local churches such as Zion Traveler Ch, Morning Star Ch., and Little Zion Ch., alongside rural educational sites like the Valverda Sch..