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1953 Map of Brush Lake

Name: 1953 Topographic Map of Brush Lake
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1954
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1954

About this map

Modesto expands toward its southwest boundaries in this early 1950s survey, where the city grid meets the fertile floodplains of the Central Valley. The landscape is defined by the winding courses of the Tuolumne River and the San Joaquin River, which converge amidst a complex network of agricultural infrastructure. This includes the extensive Rancho Del Puerto and numerous irrigation channels like Lower Lateral No 2.

Rural education is a central theme of the era, with several local schools anchoring the community, including Shiloh School, Paradise School, and the Westport Union School. The presence of the Modesto Sewage Disposal and Patterson Sewage Disposal plants near the riverbanks highlights the post-war municipal development necessary to support the growing population of Beverly and the surrounding valley farms.