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1954 Map of Brooksville

Name: 1954 Topographic Map of Brooksville
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1968
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1968

About this map

Brooksville serves as the focal point of this mid-century survey, showing the city's concentrated grid and the surrounding agricultural and industrial landscape of Hernando County. The region's extraction industry is highly visible through several Quarries and a large Tailings Pond located northwest of the main settlement. Small communities like Spring Hill and Camps are situated along the transportation corridors, while the Seaboard Air Line railroad provides a critical link for the area's movement of goods and people.

Natural features dominate the northern and eastern portions of the map, including the Chinsegut National Wildlife Refuge and a network of prairie lakes such as Simmons Prairie Lake and Willow Prairie Lake. Elevated terrain like Bathey Hill breaks the lowland patterns of swamps and lakes. The distribution of small settlements such as Wiscon and Tooke Lake Junction illustrates the early 1950s rural development pattern before more modern suburban expansion altered the central Florida interior.