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1953 Map of Maringouin

Name: 1953 Topographic Map of Maringouin
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1954
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1954

About this map

Maringouin and the neighboring settlement of Musson occupy the narrow, fertile natural levees between Bayou Grosse Tete and Bayou Maringouin. In this mid-century landscape, the transition from organized agriculture to the dense bottomland of the Atchafalaya Floodway is sudden and stark. The eastern edge is defined by the East Protection Levee, a massive engineering work separating the town's small-plot farms from a wilderness of bayous like Bayou Button and Bayou Des Glaises.

Local infrastructure follows the water, with the Texas and Pacific railroad and a dense concentration of community landmarks clustered near the banks. Genealogists will find a cluster of rural institutions, including St Peter Cem, Bethany Ch, and both the Upper Maringouin Sch and Lower Maringouin Sch, reflecting a highly localized social structure common to the Louisiana river parishes before the era of school consolidation.