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1955 Map of Oak Mound Bayou

Name: 1955 Topographic Map of Oak Mound Bayou
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1972
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1972

About this map

Indian Mound Bay and the surrounding marshlands of St. Bernard Parish define this coastal landscape as it was mapped in the early 1950s. The region is a complex network of estuarine waters and low-lying landforms, including the Grass Islands and Little Mud Grass Islands. Navigation through this watery maze is traced via named channels such as Dutchman Pass, Hell Pass, and Fishing Smack SW Pass, which connect larger bodies like Shell Island Lake and Drum Bay.

Family and local history names are preserved through features like Bayou De Soto, Tobacco Bayou, and Anderson Point. This 1955 field check records the intricate drainage patterns of the Louisiana coast, including the meandering Oak Mound Bayou and the curiously named Deadmans Bayou. The map serves as a detailed record of the shoreline and bayou distribution before decades of coastal erosion and subsiding wetlands altered these specific southern reaches.