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1964 Map of Los Alamitos

Name: 1964 Topographic Map of Los Alamitos
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1982
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1982

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The Los Angeles and Orange County line bisects this post-war landscape of rapid suburban expansion, where the concrete channels of the San Gabriel River and Coyote Creek manage the drainage of a once-alluvial plain. Heavy institutional and military presence anchors the southern half of the sheet, dominated by the sprawling U S Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach and the Los Alamitos Armed Forces Reserve Center.

Evidence of the region's agricultural roots and transition to a leisure economy is visible in the proximity of the Artesia Cemetery to the rising attractions of Knott's Berry Farm and the Los Alamitos Racetrack. To the west, the Oil Field near Marine Stadium and the US Veterans Hospital in Long Beach reflect the industrial and civic infrastructure that supported the mid-century population boom in cities like Lakewood, Cerritos, and Cypress.