Sources of Land-Use and Population Information

All of the land-use maps in this report are compilations from several different sources of historical content, including the following:

• Broward County Department of Land Use, Broward County Planning Council, Fort Lauderdale (Don Waldron, Senior Planner),
• Florida Department of State, Division of Library and Information Services, Bureau of Archives and Records Management, Tallahassee,
• Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Research Center, Miami,
• Miami-Dade Department of Planning and Zoning, Office of Public Works, Miami (Frank McCuene, Administrator),
• Palm Beach County Department of Planning, Zoning and Building, West Palm Beach (Dick Morely, Principal Planner; Marty Hodgkins, Director of Zoning),
• University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida History Collection (James Cusick, Curator; Mil Willis, Archivist),
• University of Miami, Coral Gables, Special Collections (Daniel Blazek, Department Head), and
• USGS historical topographic map collections, 1:24,000 scale.

The 1900-60 land-use maps were compiled, in part, from 1900 and 1953 land-use maps developed by Robert Costanza, Ph.D., University of Maryland. The 1960-2000 land-use maps were compiled, in part, from city or county land-use planning maps, historical maps obtained from the above-mentioned sources, USGS land-use and land-cover maps, and South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) map data.