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1952 Map of Marysville

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

USGS Topo · Published 1968

About this map

The Feather River and Yuba River confluence anchors this mid-century portrait of a region defined by its water management and agricultural grid. In Yuba City and Marysville, the urban footprint is tightly bounded by levee systems and the branching lines of the Southern Pacific and Sacramento Northern railroads. This era shows the developed valley floor just before the 1955 floods prompted further levee engineering.

Beyond the city centers, the landscape is dotted with rural schools and vanished rail junctions, including Franklin School, Gaither Union Sch, and the busy rail interchange at Binney Junc. To the east, the edge of Camp Beale and the Trainer Hills mark the transition from the flat basin into the Sierra Nevada foothills. Smaller outlying communities like Olivehurst, Alicia, and Tierra Buena appear in their post-war expansion phases, while numerous sloughs like Gilsizer Slough reveal the natural drainage patterns of the Sacramento Valley floor.