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1894 Map of Lake Felicity

Name: 1894 Topographic Map of Lake Felicity
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1894
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1894

About this map

Lake Felicity and the surrounding coastal marshland dominate this 1891 survey, illustrating the complex hydrology of the Gulf Coast boundary between Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes. The landscape is a labyrinth of interconnected waterways and shallow basins, where the influence of Timbalier Bay and Lake Barre reaches deep into the interior. These wetlands are defined by a network of bayous, including the prominent Bayou Du Chien and Bayou Blue, which serve as the primary conduits for water movement through the saturated terrain.

Local family names and traditional nomenclature appear in features such as Lake Billiot and St. Jean Charles Bayou, hinting at the early settlement patterns of the Acadian and Indigenous communities that navigated these wetlands long before modern infrastructure. The detailed hydrography, featuring smaller bodies like Catfish Lake and Bayou L'Ours, provides a baseline for understanding the coastal evolution of this region before the major land loss of the twentieth century.