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1966 Map of El Monte

Name: 1966 Topographic Map of El Monte
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1982
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1982

About this map

The Mission San Gabriel Arcangel serves as a historic anchor for this San Gabriel Valley landscape, which by the mid-1960s shows the dense suburbanization and complex infrastructure of modern Los Angeles. The Rio Hondo and San Gabriel River dominate the central drainage, leading into the significant engineering of the Whittier Narrows Dam and its adjacent Whittier Narrows Recreational Area. This flood control basin creates a distinct open space buffer between the established residential cores of El Monte, Rosemead, and Pico Rivera.

Infrastructure is a defining theme here, with the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads intersecting a burgeoning freeway network including the San Bernardino Freeway. To the south, the Montebello Hills are marked as an active Oil Field, contrasting with the expansive memorial grounds of Rose Hills Memorial Park to the southeast. The map details numerous community landmarks, from the Savannah Cem to the San Gabriel Country Club.