1943 Map of Crooked Island

About this map

St Andrew Sound and the barrier topography of Crooked Island define this coastal landscape as it appeared during the height of the second World War. Surveyed by S. L. Parker for the War Department, this map reveals a coastline largely shaped by nature, dominated by the Gulf of Mexico and shifting Sand Dunes. The lack of inland development on this sheet reflects the area's primary military or maritime utility in the early 1940s, providing a raw look at the Florida shoreline before the significant post-war changes that would later transform the Bay County coast.