Rare Old Map of Jacksonville, Florida by USGS, 1918: St. Johns River, Mayport & Fort Caroline
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Published in 1918 from survey data collected that same year, the US Geological Survey’s “Jacksonville” presents Northeast Florida at a moment when...
Continua a leggerePublished in 1918 from survey data collected that same year, the US Geological Survey’s “Jacksonville” presents Northeast Florida at a moment when river commerce, rail connection, and suburban expansion were reshaping the city. Drawn at the exacting 1:62,500 scale, the map captures Jacksonville not merely as a settlement, but as a geographic system: an urban core set within tidal rivers, pine flatwoods, marshes, roads, railways, and Atlantic approaches. Its ten-foot contour intervals are especially revealing in a region where subtle changes in elevation can define drainage, settlement, and transportation. The result is a richly informative portrait of a city whose strategic position on the St. Johns River made it one of Florida’s great gateways in the early twentieth century.
The US Geological Survey brought to this map the disciplined visual language that made its topographical sheets indispensable to engineers, planners, soldiers, scientists, and explorers. Contour lines articulate the low relief of coastal Florida with quiet precision, while water bodies and wetlands are clearly distinguished from uplands, roads, and built areas through the restrained but effective use of color. Unlike more decorative maps, this sheet derives its beauty from order, measurement, and clarity. The viewer can follow the branching hydrology of the region, trace transportation corridors, and read the landscape as a working environment. Every line serves a purpose, yet together they create an elegant cartographic composition rooted in the scientific ambitions of early federal mapping.
Jacksonville appears as the principal urban center, its neighborhoods and approaches already suggesting the patterns of growth that would define the modern city. Riverside, Springfield, Murray Hill, and other developing districts sit in relation to rail lines, roads, river crossings, and the commercial waterfront, revealing how transportation shaped the city’s outward movement. In 1918, Jacksonville was recovering from the transformative decades following the Great Fire of 1901 and consolidating its role as a financial, industrial, and shipping hub for North Florida. The map preserves that transitional landscape: a city large enough to command the region, yet still closely interwoven with creeks, marshes, farms, timberlands, and open ground at its edges.
The waterways are the great protagonists of this map. The broad St. Johns River curves through the sheet with commanding presence, joined by the Trout River, Ortega River, Nassau River, and San Pablo River, each defining corridors of movement, drainage, and settlement. To the east, the Atlantic Ocean and the approaches around Mayport mark Jacksonville’s maritime threshold, where river navigation met coastal shipping. Fort Caroline evokes a much deeper history, recalling the sixteenth-century French presence and the long contest for Florida’s Atlantic seaboard. The map’s coastal and riverine details illuminate why this region was both commercially valuable and environmentally complex: a landscape of tidal reaches, sandy ridges, low elevations, and navigable channels.
As a historical document, “Jacksonville” offers a remarkable baseline for understanding a century of urban and environmental change. Roads that were once modest routes would later become major arteries, beach communities such as Jacksonville Beach would grow in prominence, and the metropolitan area would expand across land that appears here as sparsely developed terrain. The map also invites comparison with later parks, preserves, highways, and neighborhoods, making visible the transformation of wetlands, riverfronts, and suburban edges. Yet its enduring appeal lies in the balance between precision and atmosphere: it is at once a technical government survey and a vivid record of place, capturing Jacksonville when its modern identity was still being mapped into being.
Cities, towns and places on this map
- Jacksonville
- St. Johns River
- Nassau River
- Trout River
- Ortega River
- San Pablo River
- Mayport
- Fort Caroline
- Boca Raton
- Atlantic Ocean
- Lake Park
- Murray Hill
- Riverside
- Springfield
- Dames Point
- Philip F. J. Annorino Park
- Jacksonville Beach
- A1A Highway
- Railways and various roads
- Various unincorporated communities and parks
Historical context & cartographic details
- Published by the US Geological Survey in 1918.
- Historical 1:62,500 topographical map of Jacksonville, Florida, and the surrounding area.
- Produced using survey data collected in 1918.
- Shows detailed topographical information, including elevation changes and water bodies.
- Features a traditional topographical layout with contour lines.
- Contour intervals are marked at ten feet.
- Uses color to differentiate landforms and water bodies.
- Includes detailed representations of rivers and surrounding terrain.
- Provides insight into Jacksonville’s urban development and geography around 1918.
- Useful for studying changes in land use and urban expansion over time.
- Reflects the US Geological Survey’s role in comprehensive topographical mapping for planning, resource management, and historical research.
Looking for a particular place? Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, ask our workshop to check before you order.
Detailed maps are especially rewarding at larger sizes, where names, boundaries and decorative features have more room to be appreciated. Use the close-up preview and size guide to choose the right scale for your wall.
This map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please get in touch.
The model in the listing images is holding the 16x20in (40x50cm) version of this map.
Where personalisation is available, you can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. See personalised map examples.
Every piece is printed to museum-grade archival standards using fade-resistant pigment inks on acid-free matte paper. Choose an unframed map print, framed map or canvas using the finish options above. Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.
With its rich detail and strong sense of place, this map makes a considered gift for a new home, anniversary, retirement or anyone with a personal connection to the area shown. Still deciding? Explore our collection of rare old and vintage maps to discover another place, period or style.
This map is also available as a float framed canvas, sometimes known as a shadow gap framed canvas or canvas floater. The map is printed on artist's cotton canvas and then stretched over a handmade box frame. We then "float" the canvas inside a wooden frame, which is available in a range of colours (black, dark brown, oak, antique gold and white). This is a wonderful way to present a map without glazing in front. See some examples of float framed canvas maps and explore the differences between my different finishes.
For something truly unique, this map is also available in "Unique 3D", our trademarked process that dramatically transforms the map so that it has a wonderful sense of depth. We combine the original map with detailed topography and elevation data, so that mountains and the terrain really "pop". For more info and examples of 3D maps, check my Unique 3D page.
Published in 1918 from survey data collected that same year, the US Geological Survey’s “Jacksonville” presents Northeast Florida at a moment when river commerce, rail connection, and suburban expansion were reshaping the city. Drawn at the exacting 1:62,500 scale, the map captures Jacksonville not merely as a settlement, but as a geographic system: an urban core set within tidal rivers, pine flatwoods, marshes, roads, railways, and Atlantic approaches. Its ten-foot contour intervals are especially revealing in a region where subtle changes in elevation can define drainage, settlement, and transportation. The result is a richly informative portrait of a city whose strategic position on the St. Johns River made it one of Florida’s great gateways in the early twentieth century.
The US Geological Survey brought to this map the disciplined visual language that made its topographical sheets indispensable to engineers, planners, soldiers, scientists, and explorers. Contour lines articulate the low relief of coastal Florida with quiet precision, while water bodies and wetlands are clearly distinguished from uplands, roads, and built areas through the restrained but effective use of color. Unlike more decorative maps, this sheet derives its beauty from order, measurement, and clarity. The viewer can follow the branching hydrology of the region, trace transportation corridors, and read the landscape as a working environment. Every line serves a purpose, yet together they create an elegant cartographic composition rooted in the scientific ambitions of early federal mapping.
Jacksonville appears as the principal urban center, its neighborhoods and approaches already suggesting the patterns of growth that would define the modern city. Riverside, Springfield, Murray Hill, and other developing districts sit in relation to rail lines, roads, river crossings, and the commercial waterfront, revealing how transportation shaped the city’s outward movement. In 1918, Jacksonville was recovering from the transformative decades following the Great Fire of 1901 and consolidating its role as a financial, industrial, and shipping hub for North Florida. The map preserves that transitional landscape: a city large enough to command the region, yet still closely interwoven with creeks, marshes, farms, timberlands, and open ground at its edges.
The waterways are the great protagonists of this map. The broad St. Johns River curves through the sheet with commanding presence, joined by the Trout River, Ortega River, Nassau River, and San Pablo River, each defining corridors of movement, drainage, and settlement. To the east, the Atlantic Ocean and the approaches around Mayport mark Jacksonville’s maritime threshold, where river navigation met coastal shipping. Fort Caroline evokes a much deeper history, recalling the sixteenth-century French presence and the long contest for Florida’s Atlantic seaboard. The map’s coastal and riverine details illuminate why this region was both commercially valuable and environmentally complex: a landscape of tidal reaches, sandy ridges, low elevations, and navigable channels.
As a historical document, “Jacksonville” offers a remarkable baseline for understanding a century of urban and environmental change. Roads that were once modest routes would later become major arteries, beach communities such as Jacksonville Beach would grow in prominence, and the metropolitan area would expand across land that appears here as sparsely developed terrain. The map also invites comparison with later parks, preserves, highways, and neighborhoods, making visible the transformation of wetlands, riverfronts, and suburban edges. Yet its enduring appeal lies in the balance between precision and atmosphere: it is at once a technical government survey and a vivid record of place, capturing Jacksonville when its modern identity was still being mapped into being.
Cities, towns and places on this map
- Jacksonville
- St. Johns River
- Nassau River
- Trout River
- Ortega River
- San Pablo River
- Mayport
- Fort Caroline
- Boca Raton
- Atlantic Ocean
- Lake Park
- Murray Hill
- Riverside
- Springfield
- Dames Point
- Philip F. J. Annorino Park
- Jacksonville Beach
- A1A Highway
- Railways and various roads
- Various unincorporated communities and parks
Historical context & cartographic details
- Published by the US Geological Survey in 1918.
- Historical 1:62,500 topographical map of Jacksonville, Florida, and the surrounding area.
- Produced using survey data collected in 1918.
- Shows detailed topographical information, including elevation changes and water bodies.
- Features a traditional topographical layout with contour lines.
- Contour intervals are marked at ten feet.
- Uses color to differentiate landforms and water bodies.
- Includes detailed representations of rivers and surrounding terrain.
- Provides insight into Jacksonville’s urban development and geography around 1918.
- Useful for studying changes in land use and urban expansion over time.
- Reflects the US Geological Survey’s role in comprehensive topographical mapping for planning, resource management, and historical research.
Looking for a particular place? Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, ask our workshop to check before you order.
Detailed maps are especially rewarding at larger sizes, where names, boundaries and decorative features have more room to be appreciated. Use the close-up preview and size guide to choose the right scale for your wall.
This map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please get in touch.
The model in the listing images is holding the 16x20in (40x50cm) version of this map.
Where personalisation is available, you can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. See personalised map examples.
Every piece is printed to museum-grade archival standards using fade-resistant pigment inks on acid-free matte paper. Choose an unframed map print, framed map or canvas using the finish options above. Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.
With its rich detail and strong sense of place, this map makes a considered gift for a new home, anniversary, retirement or anyone with a personal connection to the area shown. Still deciding? Explore our collection of rare old and vintage maps to discover another place, period or style.
This map is also available as a float framed canvas, sometimes known as a shadow gap framed canvas or canvas floater. The map is printed on artist's cotton canvas and then stretched over a handmade box frame. We then "float" the canvas inside a wooden frame, which is available in a range of colours (black, dark brown, oak, antique gold and white). This is a wonderful way to present a map without glazing in front. See some examples of float framed canvas maps and explore the differences between my different finishes.
For something truly unique, this map is also available in "Unique 3D", our trademarked process that dramatically transforms the map so that it has a wonderful sense of depth. We combine the original map with detailed topography and elevation data, so that mountains and the terrain really "pop". For more info and examples of 3D maps, check my Unique 3D page.
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Most orders are made locally and delivered in around 2–3 working days, depending on the product, size and destination.
We print and frame maps and artwork in 24 countries around the world, so your order is usually made close to you or your recipient. That means faster delivery, less time in transit, and no customs or import duty surprises.
Personalised and customised pieces usually take an extra 1–2 working days, because we prepare your design and send it to you for approval before printing.
Very large framed orders can take a little longer, as they need extra care in production and delivery.
Every order is carefully packaged: unframed prints are sent in a strong protective tube, while framed pieces are securely packed with protective materials around the frame.
If you need your order by a particular date, please contact us before ordering. We’ll check the best production route and delivery option for your location.
Express delivery is available at checkout for most countries. Next-day delivery is available in the UK, US, Singapore and the UAE.
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Our standard frame is a gallery-style black ash hardwood frame, with a simple, modern look. It is approximately 20mm (0.8in) wide. You can also view some lovely customer photos of framed maps and art.
We use super-clear acrylic glazing, also known as Perspex or Acrylite, instead of traditional glass. It is lighter, safer, and has lower reflectivity, giving the artwork a clearer, cleaner appearance.
Six standard frame colours are available at no extra cost: black, dark brown, dark grey, oak, white, and antique gold. Custom framing and mounting/matting is also available for customers looking for something more specific.
Most maps, art prints, and illustrations are also available as a framed canvas. We use matte cotton canvas, stretch it over a sustainably sourced wooden box frame, and then float the piece within a wooden outer frame. The finished result is beautifully presented, with no glazing between you and the artwork.
All frames are supplied ready to hang, with either string or brackets fitted to the back. Very large frames will include heavy-duty hanging plates and/or a mounting baton. If you have any questions, please get in touch.
We can also supply old maps and artwork on canvas, foam board, cotton rag, and other materials.
If you would prefer to frame your map or artwork yourself, please read our size guide before ordering.
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Questa mappa può essere adattata a una particolare parete, stanza o progetto, e il nostro laboratorio può aiutare a coordinare dimensioni, materiale e incorniciatura prima della produzione.
- Dimensioni precise, extra-large e su misura
- Incorniciatura, montaggio e materiali alternativi personalizzati
- Pezzi coordinati per più stanze o sedi
- Personalizzazione della mappa, per evidenziare luoghi importanti o aggiungere dettagli supplementari
- Consulenza su mappa e incorniciatura dal nostro laboratorio
- Produzione locale per progetti in tutto il mondo
Every Unique Maps piece begins with an authentic cartographic source or an original design from our London studio.
For our historic maps, we source rare originals from libraries, archives, auction houses and private collections around the world. We carefully restore each map for print—repairing age-related damage, balancing colour and improving clarity while preserving its original detail, texture and character.
Once restored, the map is prepared for your chosen size and finish. Your piece is then printed and, where selected, framed close to its delivery destination.
Our map prints use acid-free 200gsm archival matte paper and fade-resistant pigment inks, creating a rich, non-glossy finish designed to last. Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.
Canvas, cotton-rag and other specialist presentations are also available. Learn more about our materials and finishes.
Personalising your map
You can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. For personalised designs, we send a proof before printing and you can request changes before approval.
For more complex bespoke commissions, contact our design team.
Original or Aged
Choose Original for true-to-source colour, or Aged for a warmer, richer antique character created with our specialist ageing process. See examples of our Aged maps.
Restauriamo e produciamo mappe e stampe d’arte dal 1984, e garantiamo personalmente ogni pezzo.
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