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1952 Map of Turtle Bay

Name: 1952 Topographic Map of Turtle Bay
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1953
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1953

About this map

Camp Hulen and the adjacent Palacios Municipal Airport dominate the eastern shoreline of Turtle Bay in this early 1950s coastal survey. The landscape is a transition of salt marshes and tidal flats, where Buttermilk Slough drains into the bay near Turtle Point. Inland, the terrain is marked by family-named landmarks and small water bodies such as Sartwelle Lakes and Piper Lakes, alongside the Carancahua Ch situated west of Fivemile Draw.

The map reveals complex jurisdictional history along the Texas coast, illustrating the Indefinite Boundary Survey of 1887 and 1907 lines where Jackson, Matagorda, and Calhoun counties meet. Technical infrastructure of the era is also evident, from the Palacios Radio Range Station to the Sewage Disposal plant and numerous windmills that supported the cattle and coastal industries of the mid-century.