Poverty Point Earthworks

Poverty Point Earthworks (HM22GK)

Location: Pioneer, LA 71266 West Carroll Parish
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Country: United States of America
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N 32° 38.15', W 91° 24.224'

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The Poverty Point site earthworks are the largest in North America at the
time they were built (1700 B.C. to 1100 B. C.). The huge size and
complexity indicates that the inhabitants were settled, even though they
were hunter-gatherers and also indicates that the population here was
very large for a people that did not practice agriculture.

Look to the West across highway 577 and you can view the gigantic
Mound A through the break in the trees. The semi-circular ridges are
located in the trees in front of the mound, with two ridges in the open
area in front of the trees.

The pattern of the ridges was not known until 1952 when James Ford
acquired an aerial photograph of the area. The inner ridge (ridge 1) is
1,950 feet in diameter and the outer ridge (ridge 6) is nearly three
quarters of a mile in diameter surrounding a 43 acre central plaza area.
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HM NumberHM22GK
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Date Added Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 at 7:01pm PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)15S E 649734 N 3612041
Decimal Degrees32.63583333, -91.40373333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 32° 38.15', W 91° 24.224'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds32° 38' 8.9999999999999" N, 91° 24' 13.44" W
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Area Code(s)318
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 6859 LA-577, Pioneer LA 71266, US
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