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1953 Map of Lodi South

Name: 1953 Topographic Map of Lodi South
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1955
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1955

About this map

Agricultural development and industrial transit converge in this mid-century survey of the Central Valley. The City of Lodi anchors the north, while the expanding northern reaches of the City of Stockton and suburban Lincoln Village push upward from the south. The landscape is defined by its infrastructure, from the steel rails of the Western Pacific and Southern Pacific to the critical route of the Mokelumne Aqueduct.

Smaller rural hubs like Harte, Armstrong, and Henderson Village sit amidst a network of farm-to-market roads, while local landmarks such as Micke Park and the Tom Cannery highlight the era's social and economic focus. Large reclamation tracts including the Atlas Tract and Shima Tract demonstrate the managed hydrology of the region, where levees flank waterways like Bear Creek to protect the fertile orchards and fields that defined the local economy before late-century expansion.