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1962 Map of Daytona Beach SW

Name: 1962 Topographic Map of Daytona Beach SW
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1981
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1981

About this map

Daytona Park Estates stands out as a primary residential development amidst a vast Florida wetland landscape defined by seasonal water and dense vegetation. Surveyed in the early 1960s and updated in 1980, this map reveals a complex drainage network where Deep Creek and Little Haw Creek thread through the McKenzie Islands and Dukes Islands. These "islands" are actually slightly elevated hammocks within the expansive Tiger Bay and Boggy Strand ecosystems.

Evidence of human infrastructure is concentrated along the western edge with the grid of Daytona Park Estates and landmarks like Lake Winnemissett and Park Lake. A long diagonal pipeline and numerous borrow pits suggest the intensive land-moving required to build and maintain transit corridors through the marshy interior. Curiously named features like Dark Entry and Rattlesnake Island speak to the character of the terrain before modern drainage and development reached this interior section of Volusia County.