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1953 Map of Horcado Ranch

Name: 1953 Topographic Map of Horcado Ranch
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1993
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1993

About this map

San Ildefonso Pueblo Grant and the neighboring Pojoaque Pueblo Grant define the northern reaches of this New Mexican landscape, where the high desert is carved by seasonal watercourses. The 1951 aerial surveys, later updated in the 1990s, reveal a region of intersecting land grants and historical boundaries, including the Jacona Grant and the Tesuque Pueblo Grant. Settlement is concentrated near the Rio Tesuque at Cuyamungue, while the western portion of the map is dominated by the heights of the Caja del Rio Plateau within the Santa Fe National Forest.

Infrastructure like the Pipeline and Aqueduct trace the management of water and resources through the arid terrain. Names like Arroyo Calabasa and Arroyo de Japonito mark the drainage patterns that have shaped movement through these canyons for centuries. Farther south, the isolated Horcado Ranch and the community of Las Dos represent the sparse but persistent ranching and residential presence on the outskirts of Santa Fe.