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1962 Map of Thibodaux

Name: 1962 Topographic Map of Thibodaux
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1981
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1981

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The sprawling sugar plantations of Thibodaux dominate this landscape along the banks of Bayou Lafourche during the mid-20th century. Large agricultural estates such as Greenwood Plantation, Abby Plantation, and Laurel Valley Plantation line the waterway, illustrating the region's deep ties to the plantation economy even as industrial elements like the Chacahoula Oil and Gas Field and numerous Gas Well sites begin to mark the surrounding terrain.

Educational institutions including Francis T Nicholls State College and Thibodaux College anchor the city's northern edge, while the transit network of the Texas and Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads converge at Thibodaux Junction. To the south and east, the transition from managed farmland to the wilder reaches of Devil Swamp and the Lafourche Drainage Canal highlights the complex water management required to maintain these settlements in the low-lying Louisiana parish.