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1967 Map of Marana

Name: 1967 Topographic Map of Marana
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1986
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1986

About this map

The Santa Cruz River corridor in the mid-1960s reveals an agricultural and transportation landscape defined by the Southern Pacific railroad. The settlement of Marana serves as a central hub, featuring educational infrastructure like Marana High Sch and Jr High Sch, alongside its namesake Marana Siding. Further southeast, the small community of Rillito sits near an Industrial Waste Pond and significant gravel operations, indicating the area's industrial utility during this era.

Arid expanses of the Avra Valley are punctuated by aviation landmarks, including a Landing Field, a Landing Strip, and an Airway Beacon near Rattlesnake Pass. The terrain transitions sharply from the flat river valley to the rising slopes of the Tortolita Mountains in the northeast. This 1967 field-checked data captures the region before extensive modern suburban expansion, when the landscape was still largely a mix of open desert, irrigation features like Settling Ponds, and heavy transit lines.