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1950 Map of Maytown

Name: 1950 Topographic Map of Maytown
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1981
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1981

About this map

Maytown sits at the junction of several historical transport corridors in this mid-century survey of the Florida coastal lowlands. The landscape is defined by massive Spanish land grants that predate modern township-and-range surveying, including the Joseph Wales Grant and the Delespine Grant. These legacy boundaries fragment the wetlands and hammocks, such as Turnbull Hummock, creating a unique property pattern that persists through the 20th century.

Evidence of shifting commerce is found in the Old Railroad Grade and other corridors marked as Abandoned, which once linked these remote interior points to the coast. The southern portion of the map transitions into the Game Refuge across the Volusia and Brevard County line, while the community of Scottsmoor appears in the southeast, showing the early infrastructure of this subtropical environment before major development reached the area.