1958 Map of Belle Meade NW

About this map

Panther Camp and Kingsville Camp stand as isolated outposts in the southern Florida interior of the late 1950s. The landscape is dominated by marshy wetlands and cypress strands, a period when the deep Collier County back-country remained largely untouched by major development. A single primary roadway appears as a vertical corridor marked Under Construction, signaling the early stages of infrastructure expansion into these remote reaches. This survey by the Geological Survey captures the transition of the Everglades region as it moved from a wilderness accessible only by camp trails toward a more modern, connected landscape, even as vast stretches of the terrain remained unmapped by private survey lines.