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1968 Map of Swayze Lake

Name: 1968 Topographic Map of Swayze Lake
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1994
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1994

About this map

Sambo and Melville sit at the center of this hydrographic study along the West Atchafalaya Floodway, illustrating the complex water management systems of late 20th-century Louisiana. The map reveals a landscape defined by an intricate network of waterways including Bayou Rouge, Hog Bayou, and Petite Prairie Bayou, which are intersected by modern pipelines and flood control structures like the Floodgate near the Pointe Coupee and St. Landry Parish line.

Social and economic life is marked by the United Pentecostal Ch, a Cem, and infrastructure such as the Hanks Landing Strip and scattered Oil Wells. The natural terrain transitions from the dense oxbows and swampy depressions of Swayze Lake and Half Moon Lake to the open stretches of Petite Prairie, showing the environmental character before further late-century development modified these flood-prone lowlands.