Open range areas are generally marked with signage and protected by a cattle guard. The next morning, the Cattle Guard Battalion returned to Fort Meade. In early February 1865, the Cattle Guard Battalion was deployed at Fort Meade. MS 465 soon crosses a cattle guard and turns northeastward toward the levee. The road crosses a cattle guard and becomes a two-lane road again. As you come to the top of the mesa, you will pass a cattle guard.