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1986 Map of St. Joseph

Name: 1986 Topographic Map of St. Joseph
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1986
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1986

About this map

The Mississippi River creates a dynamic border between Louisiana and Mississippi on this mid-1980s provisional survey, where the river's path is marked by features like Bondurant Towhead and Hardscrabble Bend. On the Louisiana side, the parish seat of St. Joseph is situated near the oxbow of Lake Bruin, a former river channel that now supports Lake Bruin State Park. This area showcases the transition from the low-lying alluvial plains of Tensas Parish to the rising bluffs across the water in Mississippi.

Historical landmarks are prominent throughout the landscape, particularly east of the river in Claiborne County. Here, the Windsor Ruins and an Indian Mound stand near Bruinsburg, while the campus of Alcorn State University dominates the southeastern corner near the community of Alcorn. The map also captures infrastructure critical to the region, including the Tensas Parish Airport and the Boathouse Gaging Sta on the lake.