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1935 Map of Mound Bayou

Name: 1935 Topographic Map of Mound Bayou
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1935
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1935

About this map

Mound Bayou stands as a focal point of this Delta landscape, situated along the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad in a region defined by its dense network of bayous and alluvial plains. The map reveals an intricate social geography of the 1930s, marked by numerous rural churches and schools like Strangers Home Ch and White Zion Sch that served the farming communities between the Sunflower River and the Hushpuckena River.

A significant portion of the eastern terrain is occupied by the State Reservation, a structured system of work camps including Hospital Camp and Camp 11 arranged around Black Bayou. The survey, which utilized aerial photographs from the Army Air Corps, captures the area just as the drainage patterns of Jones Bayou and Beaver Bayou were being deeply integrated into the agricultural economy of Bolivar and Sunflower Counties.