1958 Map of Alva SE

About this map

Lehigh Acres appears in a moment of rapid residential expansion at the western edge of this survey, with extensive street grids and a Golf Course newly laid out by the early 1970s. The landscape transition is stark, moving from these planned suburban blocks into the untamed wetlands of the Florida interior. The drainage patterns across the terrain are defined by natural features like Twelvemile Slough and Fussel Slough, alongside man-made interventions such as the Townsend Canal. In the lower reaches of the quadrangle, the Corkscrew Lookout Tower stands as a lonely sentinel over the flat pinelands and marshy basins. This map captures the intersection of three counties—Lee, Hendry, and Collier—revealing how infrastructure like Route 82 began to pierce through the natural drainage systems of Curison Gully.