1956 Map of Miami

About this map

The Everglades National Park dominates the southern tip of the Florida peninsula, stretching from the mangrove-fringed Ten Thousand Islands and Ponce de Leon Bay to the shallow waters of Florida Bay. The map highlights the sharp contrast between the conserved wilderness of The Everglades and the rapid eastward expansion of the Miami metropolitan area. Along the Atlantic coast, the urban corridor reaches south through Coral Gables and Kendall toward Homestead, bounded by the Biscayne Bay shoreline and Biscayne National Monument. Inland, the Tamiami Trail serves as a critical artery through the sawgrass, punctuated by isolated sites like Pinecrest and the Tamiami Ranger Station. This 1956 compilation, revised in the early 1970s, captures the region's mid-century infrastructure, including Homestead Air Force Base and the University of Miami campus, before later large-scale development further altered the drainage patterns of the Miami Canal.