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1952 Map of Juncos

Name: 1952 Topographic Map of Juncos
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1953
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1953

About this map

Central Juncos stands as a focal point of the agricultural and industrial landscape in this mid-century portrait of eastern Puerto Rico. The town of Juncos is divided into sectors like Pueblo, Norte, and Pueblo Sur, reflecting a structured urban growth near the banks of the Río Gurabo. To the southwest, San Lorenzo and its residential Barriada Roosevelt extension highlight the valley's development along the Río Grande de Loíza.

Resource extraction and education are documented through features like the Mina de Hierro and the Escuela Segunda Unidad, indicating the economic and social infrastructure of the era. The terrain transitions from these settled valleys toward the protected elevations of the Caribbean National Forest in the northeast. This 1952 revision, based on 1940s aerial photography, captures the region's topography before modern expansion altered the rural barrio boundaries of Valenciano Abajo and Ceiba Norte.