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1973 Map of Wesley Chapel

Name: 1973 Topographic Map of Wesley Chapel
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1987
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1987

About this map

Wesley Chapel serves as the focal point for this survey of the Central Florida interior during the 1970s and 1980s. The landscape is defined by the transition from cattle country and citrus groves to suburban development, with leisure-oriented additions like the Quail Hollow Country Club and Pebble Creek Country Club emerging among the wetlands. The eastern boundary is marked by the Hillsborough River and the northern reaches of Hillsborough River State Park, while the New River and Cypress Creek drainage systems dominate the local topography.

Evidence of the era's regional infrastructure is seen in the Top of Tampa Airport and several local thoroughfares such as Chancy Road and Smith Road. Smaller community nodes like Branchton and Angus Valley Chapel provide specific points of interest for genealogists tracing family locations in this portion of the Pasco and Hillsborough County line before the rapid expansion of the late twentieth century.