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1952 Map of Safety Harbor

Name: 1952 Topographic Map of Safety Harbor
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1952
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1952

About this map

Safety Harbor and the eastern Pinellas coastline are documented here just after the war, showing a landscape defined by citrus groves and early aviation development. The Pinellas Army Airfield stands prominently in the south, its runways positioned near Highpoint and the Cross Bayou Canal. This military footprint sits alongside established rail routes like the Seaboard Air Line, which passes through the small community of Coachman.

Transport across Old Tampa Bay is anchored by the Davis Causeway, complete with its original Toll House at the western approach. Smaller settlements such as Bayview dot the shoreline, while the interior is partitioned into numbered precincts. Coastal features like Cooper Pt and the marshy reaches of Cooper Bayou illustrate the natural shoreline before the mid-century surge of suburban development reshaped the region's topography.