1931 Map of Mouth of Cantua Creek

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Cantua Creek winds through the alluvial landscape of Fresno County in this 1931 survey, illustrating the organized grid of the San Joaquin Valley’s agricultural development. The terrain is defined by a series of precisely surveyed roads, including Dodge Avenue, Davis Avenue, and Parkhurst Avenue, which segment the land into regular sections for ranching and irrigation. These long, straight thoroughfares reflect the large-scale land management typical of the era, where naming conventions like Tuolumne Avenue and Calaveras Avenue borrow from neighboring California geographies.