1974 Map of Sumner SW

About this map

Quiver River meanders across this alluvial landscape, its winding course defining the agricultural patterns of the Mississippi Delta in the mid-1970s. This orthophotoquad provides an unfiltered photographic record of the land surface, revealing the intricate oxbow scars and former river channels that have been integrated into a massive grid of cultivated fields. The absence of traditional cartographic symbols allows for a direct study of the terrain, where dark patches of timber remain clustered along the waterway and around the area known as Brooks. The drainage patterns and field boundaries captured here reflect the intensive land use and hydraulic management characteristic of Sunflower County, serving as a primary source for understanding the physical state of these rural tracts before later decades of further consolidation.