Wayback of EQ Atlas from May 2000:
https://web.archive.org/web/20000511...steamfont.html
Makes no mention of kobolds (all anyone really seemed to care about back then were minotaurs and their axes), bu
the map (which seems the same as ours) does seem to show the camps, so ...
... I'm confused as to what the OP is saying shouldn't be there.