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1969 Map of Parkers Corner

Name: 1969 Topographic Map of Parkers Corner
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1971
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1971

About this map

The agricultural landscape of the Grand Prairie is defined here by an intricate system of water management, where numerous reservoirs and irrigation channels support the region's farming heritage. Meandering through the center of the sheet, Two Prairie Bayou and Long Bayou provide a natural drainage network, while man-made features like the Blue Point Ditch and various Fish Ponds highlight the area's intensive land use during the late 1960s.

Settlement is concentrated at the namesake Parkers Corner, situated near the Base Line surveying marker. Genealogists will find several small burial grounds scattered across the terrain, including Zion Cem, Ray Cem, and the Lutheran Cem located near the eastern boundary. This survey captures a moment when the transition between natural wetlands and engineered agriculture was nearly complete, evidenced by the many named lakes like Jarvis Lake and Cooper Lake that punctuate the prairie.