
The West Atchafalaya Floodway dominates this section of the St. Landry Parish landscape, creating a vast corridor of wetlands and bayous designed for water management. The settlement of Melville sits on the eastern edge of this system along the banks of the Atchafalaya River, serving as a gateway between the river and the interior floodway. The map captures a complex hydrological network where water bodies with distinctive local names, such as Bayou Ha Ha, Negro Foot Bayou, and Bayou Misery, wind through the alluvial terrain.
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This is the sole edition of this map. No revisions or reprints were ever made.
1939 · Fordoche
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1941 · Batchelor
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1954 · Baton Rouge
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1955 · Fordoche
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1955 · Batchelor
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1955 · Odenburg
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1956 · Baton Rouge
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1959 · Fordoche
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1959 · Palmetto
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1961 · Baton Rouge
USGS Topo · 1:250,000