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1952 Map of Maricopa

Name: 1952 Topographic Map of Maricopa
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1968
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1968

About this map

Gila River Indian Reservation and the Maricopa Indian Reservation lands converge in this mid-century topographic record, centered on the railway junction of Maricopa. The landscape is dominated by the complex drainage of the Santa Cruz Wash and Vekol Wash, set against an agricultural and industrial infrastructure including Oil & Gasoline Tanks and several Pits.

South of the main settlement, the community of Ak Chin and the St Francis Mission appear alongside a local Cem, providing significant detail for those tracing the history of the O'odham people and early Pinal County settlements. The presence of the Southern Pacific railroad and the Southern Pacific Maricopa Road underscores the area's importance as a transportation corridor during the early 1950s, while later 1967 updates note infrastructure changes like an abandoned Water Tank.