1954 Map of Wiergate SE

About this map

The Sabine River snakes along the boundary of Newton County, Texas, and Vernon Parish, Louisiana, in this mid-century survey. The landscape is defined by the hydrologic complexity of the river bottomlands, where numerous oxbow lakes and sloughs such as Old Wing Slough and Horseshoe Lake illustrate the shifting nature of the river channel. These wetlands are punctuated by distinctive terrain features like Dark Hammock and Gray Hammock, which rise slightly above the surrounding floodplains.