1976 Map of Pittsboro SE

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Calhoun City and its neighbor Derma stand as the primary population centers in this mid-1970s orthophoto quadrangle. Unlike a traditional topographic map, this aerial perspective reveals the precise textures of the Mississippi landscape, showing the dense patchwork of agricultural fields and timbered tracts. The defining engineering features of the area are the massive drainage projects, most notably the Yalobusha Canal which cuts a straight, unnatural line across the terrain to manage the region's water. Further south, the meandering path of the original watercourse is superseded by the Topashaw Creek Canal. These artificial waterways illustrate the 20th-century effort to reclaim and protect the bottomlands for farming, showing how the natural hydrology of Calhoun County was reshaped by significant earth-moving projects.