1950 Map of Lake Lucero NE
USGS Topo · Published 1950About this map
White Sands National Monument and the surrounding White Sands Proving Grounds dominate this 1950 topographic survey, capturing a high-desert landscape defined by vast gypsum dunes and military expansion. The map records the early overlap of civilian ranching and federal defense land use in the Tularosa Basin, showing Bairds Ranch and its associated Windmills near the National Monument Boundary. These small outposts of human habitation and water sources like Antelope Tank represent the precarious nature of life in the White Sands region during the mid-century transition. The survey reflects a moment when the Department of the Army and the Department of the Interior managed adjacent tracts of this distinct geological environment, just before the full enclosure of many historic ranching holdings for missile testing operations.
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Editions of this 1950 Lake Lucero NE Map
This is the sole edition of this map. No revisions or reprints were ever made.
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1948 · Tres Hermanos
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1948 · Holloman
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1950 · Lake Lucero
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1950 · Lake Lucero SW
USGS Topo · 1:24,000