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1945 Map of Lake Worth

Name: 1945 Topographic Map of Lake Worth
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1968
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1968

About this map

Lake Worth and its neighboring coastal communities are captured here during a period of significant post-war expansion along the Florida coast. The map illustrates a landscape defined by the parallel corridors of the Florida East Coast and Seaboard Coast Line railroads, which facilitated the growth of inland settlements like Greenacres City and seaside hubs like Boynton Beach. The central coastal lagoon is bisected by Hypoluxo Island, while the South Lake Worth Inlet Haulover provides critical access between the inland waters and the Atlantic Ocean.

Urban development patterns are marked by the transition from the grid-iron streets of Lantana to the emerging suburban layouts around Lake Osborne and the Palm Beach County Airpark. The presence of the Boynton Canal and various unnamed water management features reflects the mid-century engineering efforts to control the local hydrology for residential and agricultural use. This survey also records the coastal strip developments of Ocean Ridge and Manalapan as they appeared before the intensive late-century high-rise boom.