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1947 Map of Mariposa

Name: 1947 Topographic Map of Mariposa
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1981
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1981

About this map

The town of Mariposa serves as the gateway to the Sierra foothills, shown here in the immediate post-war era as it transitioned toward modern tourism. Significant mining operations still marked the landscape, including the Mariposa Mine and the Granite King Mine, remnants of the region's 19th-century gold rush origins. The map illustrates the sprawling Las Mariposas grant boundary, with the Yosemite All-Year Highway carving a path through the steep drainages of Mariposa Creek and Buckeye Creek.

Rural infrastructure is captured in detail, from the Sebastopol Sch to the County Fairgrounds on the edge of town. Settlements like Bootjack and the open terrain of John Allen Flat indicate the distribution of early ranching and residential clusters. Updated notations from the late 1970s, shown in purple, reveal the gradual expansion of residential areas around the town center and along Stockton Creek.