1919 Map of Little Table Mountain

About this map

Little Table Mountain rises over a rural Madera County landscape marked by the intersection of early regional travel routes during the first decades of the twentieth century. This preliminary survey focuses on the rugged topography around Hildreth, where local life centered on the Marysdale School and the Wide Awake Ranch. The map clearly delineates the primary transit corridors of the era, specifically the Madera and North Fork Road and the Yosemite and Fresno Road, which facilitated movement through this corner of the foothills. Drainages like Mud Spring Cr are mapped in detail, though much of the surrounding quadrangle remains noted as a Preliminary Edition Unsurveyed Area, capturing a moment when official topographic record-keeping was still catching up to the developing frontier.