2018 Map of Hammonds Ranch

About this map

The Governor Edmund G Brown California Aqueduct carves a striking diagonal path across this arid landscape in the western San Joaquin Valley, illustrating the complex water infrastructure essential to agricultural life in the Central Valley. Near the western edge of the quadrangle, the terrain rises into the Panoche Hills, while the ephemeral Little Panoche Cr meanders toward the flatlands. The settlement of Hammonds Ranch sits among a rigid grid of rural roads, including Little Panoche Rd and W Shields Ave, which define the section lines of the Public Land Survey System. This layout reveals the late-20th-century character of Fresno County, where large-scale ranching and industrial-scale irrigation systems meet the foothills of the Coast Ranges.