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1973 Map of Crestview North

Name: 1973 Topographic Map of Crestview North
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1976
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1976

About this map

The northern reaches of Crestview and the surrounding Okaloosa County landscape are defined by the convergence of industrial progress and deep pine woods in the early 1970s. The Louisville and Nashville railroad serves as the primary north-south corridor, connecting the rural communities of Auburn, Garden City, and Campton. To the west, the Blackwater River State Forest preserves a labyrinth of creeks including Murder Creek and Bear Branch, while historical river crossings like Fauck Ferry hint at earlier transportation networks along the Yellow River system.

Institutional growth is evident in the cluster of schools and public facilities, such as Richbourg Jr High Sch and the Sikes Airport. For the local historian, the map preserves the exact locations of several community landmarks, from Live Oak Cemetery to the smaller Reeder Cemetery and several unnamed burial grounds. These details, alongside land features like Tucker Bluff and Hudson Island, document the transition between the urbanizing center of Crestview and the managed timberlands of the Florida Panhandle.