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1910 Map of Marcuse

Name: 1910 Topographic Map of Marcuse
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1910
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1910

About this map

Agricultural development and the systematic partitioning of the Sacramento Valley define this 1908 survey, conducted under the direction of George Otis Smith. The settlement of Marcuse stands as a focal point in this landscape of Sutter County, where early twentieth-century land claims are marked by a rigid grid of township and range lines. This surveyed area illustrates the transition of the marshy valley floor into a productive farming region through an extensive network of drainage and transport routes.

Education in the rural district is anchored by Central School, while the natural drainage of the basin is represented by Nelson Slough in the southeast. Numerous bench marks, such as BM 31 and BM 33, indicate the precision of the leveling work performed by surveyors like W. H. Griffin and M. A. Knock. The map provides a foundational record of the topography before later massive water management projects reshaped the Sacramento River's floodplain.