1938 Map of Gallup City

About this map

Gallup City sits at the heart of this late 1930s survey, a period when rural school districts and family ranching operations defined the social geography of the plains. The landscape is marked by a dense network of one-room schoolhouses, including the Spring Creek Sch, Brownell Sch, and Earhart Sch, reflecting a distributed population before the consolidation of mid-century education. Along the northern edge, the Marias River and its Dry Fork carve deep through the terrain, while the southern reaches are shaped by the Bynum Canal and Brady Canal irrigation systems.