1942 Map of Dunlap

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Squaw Valley and the foothills of the western Sierra Nevada are characterized by a network of ranching outposts and small rural school districts in this 1942 survey. The landscape is defined by the transition from open valleys to the timbered slopes of McKenzie Ridge, with livestock operations like Auckland Ranch and Dixie Ranch situated along the seasonal drainages of Sand Creek and Cottonwood Creek. Local education was decentralized, with small campus sites such as Squaw Valley Sch and Drum Valley Sch serving these remote ranching families before the era of widespread school consolidation.