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1953 Map of Jacko Bay

Name: 1953 Topographic Map of Jacko Bay
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1980
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1980

About this map

The Lake Barre Oil Field stands as a primary industrial landmark in this coastal Louisiana landscape, characterized by a complex network of canals and infrastructure cutting through the salt marshes. Surveyed in the 1950s and updated with late-1970s aerial data, the map reveals the extensive petroleum activity of the era, marked by numerous platforms, a Tower, and a Gas Well within the open waters.

This aquatic environment is defined by the meeting of several large bodies of water, including Jacko Bay, Timbalier Bay, and Lake Raccourci. The boundary between Terrebonne Parish and Lafourche Parish is noted as an indefinite boundary as it threads through the Fornation Islands. This coastal record is particularly valuable for tracing the shifting shorelines of landforms like Terrebonne Island and the Pelican Islands before decades of coastal erosion and subsidence altered the reach of Bayou de la Valle.