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1949 Map of Pompano Beach

Name: 1949 Topographic Map of Pompano Beach
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1949
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1949

About this map

Pompano Beach and the burgeoning northern reaches of Fort Lauderdale define this coastal landscape just after the war. The map documents a critical era of South Florida development, where established rail lines like the Florida East Coast intersect with the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean shoreline. Inland, the grid of Oakland Park and the specialized finger islands of Nurmi Isles show the early engineering of the marshlands into residential waterfronts.

The presence of the County Prison Camp and the Municipal Airport near Pompano Junction offers a glimpse into the civic infrastructure of 1940s Broward County. Between the Middle River and the coast, the preservation of Hugh Taylor Birch State Park stands in contrast to the expanding settlements of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea and Pinehurst Village, which were then beginning to cluster along Ocean Boulevard.