Tom Swift Jr. created his inventions on the grounds of Swift Enterprises, though there was a Swift Construction Company not too far away.  Swift Enterprises was supposed to be four miles square.  When I was a kid, I spent a great deal of time wondering if that was four square miles (two miles by two miles) or four miles by four miles (sixteen square miles).

One of the other things I was fascinated by when I was a kid was Disneyworld.  I had been to Disneyland, but the idea that Walt had this huge expanse that not only included a Magic Kingdom, but also campgrounds and lakes and other parks really touched my imagination.

For Maxxim Industries therefore, I created a huge expanse of 180,000 acres, dotted here and there with industrial parks and business campuses, as well as power plants, its own airfield, and even a spaceport.  Of course it also had rivers and a lake, a cactus park, convential parks, and for some strange reason, the high school from the adjascent Maxxim City was also on the Maxxim Industries grounds.  This allowed the students to take a monorail train to school every morning.

I made a great map, but lost it in the move to my den this past summer.  As soon as I find it, I’ll post it here.