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1955 Map of Cypress Creek

Name: 1955 Topographic Map of Cypress Creek
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1956
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1956

About this map

Cypress Creek Swamp and the surrounding wetlands dominate this 1950s borderland where the Georgia-Florida state line meets the Echols and Hamilton County divide. The landscape is characterized by extensive wet basins like Bee Haven Bay, Bear Bay, and the interestingly named Christmas Bay. Human activity is primarily limited to the northern corridor along the Watson Line, which marks the boundary between the two states.

The small settlement of Cypress Creek sits as a lonely outlier in the center of the sheet, surrounded by the tangled drainage of Rocky Creek and Bell Creek Swamp. Scattered Borrow Pits near the southern boundary suggest local infrastructure development or resource extraction in an era when much of this terrain remained dominated by native features like Martin Hammock and Rice Field Swamp. This survey provides a look at the intricate hydrography of the Suwannee River basin region before significant modern drainage or development altered these wetlands.