
Malden and Parma anchor this 1940s landscape, where the flatlands of the Missouri Bootheel are defined by an intensive network of drainage projects. The map documents the engineered transformation of the region, featuring the Original West Main Ditch and a massive system of numbered channels like Ditch No 1 and Ditch No 43 that reclaimed the terrain for agriculture.
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1931 · Sikeston
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1934 · Bloomfield
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1934 · Sikeston
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1934 · Puxico
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1939 · Bloomfield
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1939 · Sikeston
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1939 · Portageville
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1939 · New Madrid
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1939 · Puxico
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1940 · Pascola
USGS Topo · 1:62,500