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1970 Map of Lake Havasu City South

Name: 1970 Topographic Map of Lake Havasu City South
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1984
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1984

About this map

Lake Havasu City is captured here during a pivotal decade of development following its founding, showing the early infrastructure of this desert oasis along the Colorado River. The map marks the presence of the London Bridge, which had only recently been reconstructed across a newly dredged channel to Pittsburg Point. This engineering feat transformed the local geography, creating the peninsula that defines Thompson Bay.

South of the burgeoning city center, the landscape remains dominated by the Chemehuevi Indian Reservation and the rising peaks of the Whipple Mountains. The shoreline along Lake Havasu is dotted with recreational and industrial markers, from the Lake Havasu City Airport to the isolated Roulette Mine and several other unnamed mines tucked into the desert washes. This survey records the intersection of modern resort-town planning with the older, extractive history of the Arizona-California borderlands.