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1958 Map of Jena

Name: 1958 Topographic Map of Jena
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1964
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1964

About this map

The town of Jena serves as the focal point for this mid-century survey of the LaSalle and Catahoula Parish borderlands, an area defined by the meeting of timbered uplands and the vast basin of Catahoula Lake. This period captures the region's industrial transition, where the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway connects timber-focused settlements like Trout and Good Pine to larger markets, while the Nebo Hemphill Oil Field and West Catahoula Lake Oil Field indicate the growing importance of petroleum extraction.

Genealogists will find a dense concentration of community landmarks, including Webb Quarters and numerous country churches like Fellowship Ch and Shady Grove Ch. The landscape is dotted with family-named cemeteries such as Miller Cem and Forsythe Cem, providing specific locations for ancestral research. From the Beulah Lookout Tower down to the complex waterways of Big Bushley Creek and French Fork, the map details a landscape of managed forests and active resource extraction just before significant modern development altered these rural corridors.