1936 Map of Lone Tree Well

About this map

Lone Tree Well sits at the heart of this agricultural and drainage-focused landscape in the southern San Joaquin Valley. Surveyed in the early 1930s under State Engineer Edward Hyatt and Governor Frank F. Merriam, the map documents a terrain defined by the management of water and the division of political boundaries. The northern section is dominated by the Homeland Canal, while a straight east-west line marks the Kings Co Kern Co border. This survey captures the region just as large-scale irrigation infrastructure was becoming the primary driver of the local economy, showing the transition from open range toward the structured canal and section-line systems that would come to characterize this portion of California's interior basin.