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1950 Map of Aurantia

Name: 1950 Topographic Map of Aurantia
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1977
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1977

About this map

Historical Spanish land grants define the northern and eastern landscape of this Florida interior, notably the Bernardo Segui Grant and the Delespine Grant. The Brevard County Game Refuge occupies much of the central terrain, where the Florida East Coast railroad cuts a straight path through the marshes of the St. Johns River basin.

Evidence of early rural rail settlements is found at Aurantia and Southmere, established along the line amid a complex network of waterways including Buck Lake, Salt Lake, and Loughman Lake. The topography is dominated by wetlands and drainage patterns like Sixmile Creek and Cabbage Slough, illustrating the challenging environment faced by early settlers and surveyors at the Brevard and Volusia County lines. This 1950 survey, updated with 1970 aerial data, captures the region before significant modern development altered the drainage of these marshy lowlands.