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2012 Map of Lake Placid

Name: 2012 Topographic Map of Lake Placid
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2012
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2012

About this map

Lake Placid and its neighboring residential communities serve as the focal point of this 2012 survey in Highlands County. The landscape is defined by an extraordinary concentration of freshwater bodies, ranging from the massive Lake Istokpoga and its outlying Bumblebee Island to smaller, locally named basins like Lake LaChard and Saddlebags Lake. The town's grid expands around the shoreline of Lake Huntley and Lake Clay, where the community of Sylvan Shores is established.

The presence of the Oak Hill Cem and numerous named streets provides a detailed framework for local history and genealogy research. The transition from the dense residential planning of Lake Placid to the more dispersed agricultural or undeveloped tracts near Sunvale to the east reflects the area's continued reliance on its unique geography. From Mirror Lake to the southern reaches of Lake Placid, the map documents a community deeply integrated with the Florida lakefront environment.