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1965 Map of La Liebre Ranch

Name: 1965 Topographic Map of La Liebre Ranch
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1967
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1967

About this map

The San Andreas Rift Zone creates a distinct corridor across this portion of the northern Los Angeles County landscape, marking the base of the La Liebre mountains. At the heart of this region is the historic La Liebre Ranch, a site of longstanding significance for regional land management and ranching history. The terrain is characterized by a series of deep drainages including Big Sycamore Canyon and Little Sycamore Canyon, which cut through the southern slopes toward the rift valley.

Transportation through this rugged interior is represented by the Old Ridge Route, a precursor to modern highway systems that once served as the primary link between Los Angeles and the Central Valley. In the lower basins, an Aqueduct and the waters of Quail Lake indicate the growing industrial importance of water management in the mid-1960s. Small, localized features such as the settlement of Zana and numerous springs like Cow Spring Canyon provide specific points of interest for those tracing the history of water access and rural settlement in the Tehachapi foothills.