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1970 Map of Lake Harbor

Name: 1970 Topographic Map of Lake Harbor
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1971
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1971

About this map

Lake Harbor and the southern shores of Lake Okeechobee are defined by a precision-engineered landscape of drainage and transport at the dawn of the 1970s. This orthophotomosaic reveals the intense agricultural grid of the Everglades, protected by the Herbert Hoover Dyke and the Rim Canal. Small settlements like Bean City and Little Bare Beach sit along the embankment, while the interior is partitioned by the Florida East Coast and Seaboard Coast Line railroads.

Water management infrastructure is prominent, from the Miami Canal to various pumping stations and a Gaging Sta. The transition from the open waters of the lake to the marshy Halifax Banks and South Bay illustrates the hard boundary created between the natural basin and reclaimed muck lands. The presence of a Landing Strip and multiple Sewage Disposal sites underscores the industrial scale of the land use in this corner of Palm Beach County.