2024 Map of North Bend

About this map

The Bayou Teche National Wildlife Refuge anchors this low-lying landscape where the intricate waterways of St. Mary Parish meet the Atchafalaya basin. The map reveals a transition from managed wetlands to agricultural and residential pockets like Maryland, Bayou Sale, and North Bend. Settlement patterns here are dictated by the elevation of natural levees, with roads and dwellings clustered along the winding course of the Teche and the Atchafalaya Basin Spillway Levee. Deep into the marshy southern reaches, the Intracoastal Waterway cuts through the terrain, connecting Bear Bayou and Crow Bayou to larger industrial channels. For family historians, several small burial grounds are documented, including Shadyside-Fairfax Cem and North Bend Cem, which serve as quiet markers of the communities that have long inhabited these coastal prairies and bayou banks.