1971 Map of Mooring

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The Mississippi River dominates this 1971 landscape, showing the complex shifting shoreline and towheads along the Missouri Tennessee border. This survey, photorevised in 1983, documents the precarious geography of the river bottoms, where an Indefinite Boundary separates the two states amidst a network of chutes and bayous. In the settlement of Mooring, the Mooring Cem stands near the banks of Mooring Bayou, illustrating the local reliance on the high ground provided by the Levee system. To the north, the small community of Stewart and its nearby Stewart Cem sit near Stanell Bayou. The presence of several family-named landmarks like Joe Eckles Towhead and Wagner Cem provides significant detail for genealogists tracing ancestors in the Concord district during this era of modern river management.