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2002 Map of Mission

Name: 2002 Topographic Map of Mission
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2003
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2003

About this map

Mission and Mcallen anchor this detailed landscape where urban expansion meets the agricultural and natural corridors of the borderlands. The southern boundary is defined by the winding course of the Rio Grande, or Rio Bravo, where international water rights and historical land partitions are visible in named tracts like Anzalduas Banco No 45 and Granjeno Banco No 44. This area is a critical ecological zone, preserved through the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge, which provides a buffer between the densely packed residential areas of Mission and the riverbanks.

Institutional and community history is recorded through numerous landmarks, including La Lomita Mission and Our Lady of Guadalupe Ch. The map traces the infrastructure of the valley, from the Edinburg Main Canal to the network of schools like Sharyland High Sch and Veterans Memorial High Sch. These features, alongside local cemeteries such as Laurel Hill Cem, reflect the social and civil engineering that shaped the region by the early 2000s.