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1969 Map of Brush Lake

Name: 1969 Topographic Map of Brush Lake
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1986
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1986

About this map

The Tuolumne River winds westward to meet the San Joaquin River in this detailed look at the agricultural and urban fringe of Stanislaus County during the late 1960s. The northern sector captures the southwestern expansion of Modesto, showing established neighborhoods, parks such as Dryden Park Municipal Golf Course, and essential infrastructure like the Sewage Disposal facility. This urban density gives way to a sprawling landscape of orchards and fields defined by an exacting grid of lateral roads, including Lateral Road No 5 and Lower Lateral Road No 2.

Educational sites are frequent landmarks across the rural flats, from Paradise Sch and Shiloh Sch in the northwest to the centrally located Westport Union Sch. To the south, the scale of regional utility management is evident in the massive Sewage Disposal Ponds situated near the historic boundaries of Rancho Del Puerto. Smaller water features like Brush Lake and the complex irrigation network of the Westport Creek Drain illustrate the intensive water management necessary for the region's productivity.