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1967 Map of North Shore

Name: 1967 Topographic Map of North Shore
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1980
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1980

About this map

Lake Pontchartrain dominates this coastal landscape, where the Southern railroad line and modern highway infrastructure bridge the water between St. Tammany and Orleans Parishes. The map reveals a complex network of residential and industrial waterways, including the development at Grand Lagoon and a series of numbered canals branching near Slidell. Along the shoreline, small settlements like North Shore Beach and Howze Beach sit near marshy points such as Big Point.

Southward across the Large Craft Passage, the map captures the transition into the wetlands of Pointe aux Herbes and the vicinity of Treasure Island. Local history is anchored by the North Shore Chapel and Fields Cem, while the hydrological engineering of the era is evident in the presence of a Pumping Station and Gaging Station monitoring the delicate balance of the Irish Bayou system and the surrounding marshland during the late twentieth-century expansion.