1949 Map of Rice Creek

About this map

Georges Lake dominates the western landscape of this survey, surrounded by a complex network of wetlands and drainage basins. Mapped shortly after the war by the Army Map Service, the terrain shows a quiet, undeveloped stretch of the Florida interior where the Clay Co Putnam Co line bisects the northern reaches of the sheet. The hydrological pattern is particularly intricate, with Rice Creek and Etonia Creek winding through the lowlands in the southeast, while Greens Creek and the curiously named Devils Den Creek define the northern drainage. This topography reveals a landscape largely defined by its natural water flow and heavy vegetation before mid-century agricultural or residential expansion altered the surface drainage of the region.