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1995 Map of Canon Plaza

Name: 1995 Topographic Map of Canon Plaza
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1998
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1998

About this map

The Cañon Plaza settlement and the Tierra Amarilla Grant boundary define this high-altitude landscape in the mid-1990s. The map highlights a complex network of forest management within the Vallecitos Federal Sustained Yield Unit, where the Rio Vallecitos and its numerous seasonal drainage canyons like Cañada Gallina and Cañada Burro carve through the Carson National Forest.

Resource management and local ranching are central to the area's identity, evidenced by the Jaramillo Ranch and a wide array of stock tanks such as Valle Diablo Tank and Jaques Canyon Tank No 1. The presence of a Cem near the primary settlement and various Prospect and Gravel Pit sites points to the modest industrial and residential footprint maintained amidst the vast federal timber and grazing lands of Rio Arriba County.