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1954 Map of Hagan

Name: 1954 Topographic Map of Hagan
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1955
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1955

About this map

Hagan (Ghost Town) and Tejon (Ghost Town) anchor this mid-century survey of the high desert between the San Felipe Indian Reservation and the northern slopes of the Sandia Mountains. The landscape is a complex network of arroyos, including Arroyo Tonque and Arroyo Coyote, which cut through the Town of Tejon Grant. The transition from active mining to a quiet desert landscape is evident in the markings for an Old Railroad Grade and several Coal Mines (Aband) near Coyote.

Cultural history is deeply layered here, from the ancient Tonque Pueblo (Ruins) to the Tejon Cemetery and the more modern Diamond Tail Ranch. The presence of numerous windmills suggests a persistent effort to sustain ranching across the San Pedro Grant, even as former settlements like Puertocito and the mining camps faded. The map preserves the geography of a resource-driven frontier at the moment it was becoming a collection of silent sites.