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1978 Map of Bay Springs

Name: 1978 Topographic Map of Bay Springs
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1992
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1992

About this map

The low-lying wetlands of northern Florida's Panhandle are defined here by a dense network of watercourses, where the St Louis - San Francisco railroad cuts a straight line through the drainage basins of Pine Barren Creek and McDavid Creek. Small settlements like Bay Springs and McKinnon anchor the local geography, surrounded by active industrial extraction sites including a Claypit and Sandpit. These features reflect a mid-to-late 20th-century landscape of rural resource extraction and transit infrastructure.

Genealogists and local historians can trace family land ties near the unnamed Cem or follow the meandering paths of Boggy Creek and Blue Water Creek. The presence of the Roadside Park along the primary north-south thoroughfare suggests a moment in time when this area served as a connective corridor between the interior and the coast, long before modern interstate developments bypassed such quiet rural crossings.