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1953 Map of North Of Bluefield

Name: 1953 Topographic Map of North Of Bluefield
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1993
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1993

About this map

Allapattah Flats dominates this mid-century landscape of St. Lucie County, revealing a region defined by extensive drainage and water management projects. The map documents an intricate system of engineering, where numerous instances of Spoil Bank, Levee, and the Rim Ditch have fundamentally reshaped the terrain for agricultural or developmental use. These man-made features intersect with natural hydrology, such as the winding course of Cypress Creek, illustrating the transition from wetlands to a controlled rural environment.

Transportation and utility infrastructure are focused in the southeast, where the Florida East Coast rail line cuts across the flats near a Gaging Sta. The presence of a Landing Strip and multiple Flowing Well labels suggests a period of active land utilization and surveying during the early 1950s, with later purple revisions documenting the evolving woodland cover and drainage patterns into the 1970s.