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1943 Map of Beacon Beach

Name: 1943 Topographic Map of Beacon Beach
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1943
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1943

About this map

St Andrew Bay dominates this coastal survey, where the sheltered waters of the Florida Panhandle meet the Gulf of Mexico. The shoreline is defined by a complex network of inlets and points, including Smack Bayou, Sheephead Bayou, and Davis Point. The small coastal community of Beacon Beach serves as the primary settlement on this sheet, situated near the local resting place of Marywood Cem.

A narrow barrier known as SND Island buffers the bay from the open gulf, separated by the Entrance Channel. The inland geography is characterized by marshy lowlands near Freshwater Bayou and Pearl Bayou. Surveyed during the height of the Second World War, the map preserves the mid-century road network connecting the area to Panama City and Port St. Joe before the extensive modern development of the Emerald Coast.