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1957 Map of Mobile

Name: 1957 Topographic Map of Mobile
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1957
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1957

About this map

Mobile and the northern Gulf Coast reveal a landscape defined by shipping channels and timbered interior lands during the mid-1950s. The coastline is a continuous stretch of development from Bay St Louis through Biloxi to Pascagoula, where the Intracoastal Waterway and Mobile Bay Channel facilitate heavy maritime traffic. Military and industrial infrastructure is prominent at the Theodore Ammunition Terminal U S Army and Brookley AFB, while the barrier islands including Cat Island, Ship Island, and Horn Island shield the Mississippi Sound.

Inland, the DeSoto National Forest dominates the geography between the Pearl River and the Pascagoula River basins. Transportation networks like the Gulf Mobile & Ohio RR and Louisville & Nashville RR link timber towns like Wiggins and Poplarville to the port cities. The map also captures the edge of New Orleans at Lake Pontchartrain, showing the intricate network of bayous and passes that characterize the Louisiana-Mississippi borderlands.