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1952 Map of Davis

Name: 1952 Topographic Map of Davis
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1981
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1981

About this map

Univ Of Calif anchor the western edge of this landscape, showing the campus footprint alongside the burgeoning city of Davis. The map documents a critical era of post-war expansion, with purple revisions highlighting the growth of residential tracts and schools like Birch Lane Sch and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr High Sch. The infrastructure of the Central Valley is on full display through the complex water management system of the Willow Slough Bypass and the Yolo Bypass, designed to protect the agricultural flatlands.

Transportation corridors dominate the eastern half, where the Southern Pacific tracks and the Yolo Causeway provide vital links across the basin. Local social and economic features are captured in detail, from the Drive-in Theater and Golf Course at El Macero to the State Nursery Div Of Forestry. Small rail stops and settlements such as Swingle and Webster appear along the line, providing a record of the rural landscape before late 20th-century development further transformed the Yolo Co and Solano Co border.