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1954 Map of Conner

Name: 1954 Topographic Map of Conner
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1970
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1970

About this map

The Kern Lake Bed dominates the southern landscape of this Kern County region, revealing an intricate network of irrigation and drainage infrastructure essential to the Central Valley's agricultural development. This 1954 survey, with revisions into the late 1960s, documents the reclaimed character of the basin, featuring the New Rim Levee Ditch and Old Rim Levee Ditch bordering the remnant of Kern Lake. The industrial footprint of the Paloma Oil Field is evident to the west, marked by numerous wells and an Oil Sump near the settlement of Conner.

Rural life is anchored by local institutions like Lakeside Union School and Shafter School, situated along a grid of straight-line thoroughfares such as Houghton Road and Shafter Road. The map tracks the vital flow of water through the Panama Canal and Kern Island Canal, illustrating how the landscape was engineered to support both petroleum extraction and large-scale farming during the mid-20th century.