
The Matagorda Peninsula forms a narrow, salt-scrub barrier between the open Gulf of Mexico and the shallow expanse of East Matagorda Bay in this early 1950s survey. This coastal landscape is defined by the heavy engineering of the Intracoastal Waterway, where a levee and a dredging project maintaining a project depth of 12 feet separate the marshy mainland from the bay.
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1951 · Bay City
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1952 · Lake Austin
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1952 · Matagorda
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1952 · Matagorda SW
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1952 · Brown Cedar Cut
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1952 · Sargent
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1952 · Wadsworth
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1956 · Bay City
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1958 · Bay City
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1974 · Bay City
USGS Topo · 1:250,000