1955 Map of Mt. Stakes

About this map

San Antonio Valley provides the central focus of this 1955 survey, where the San Antonio Road winds through the floor of this remote mountain basin. The landscape is defined by the headwaters of numerous drainages, including San Antonio Creek and Beauregard Creek, which carve deep canyons between prominent peaks like Mt Stakes and Black Mtn. The presence of Shanti Ashram in the Upper San Antonio Valley marks a unique pocket of settlement in an otherwise sparsely populated terrain of ridges and gulches. The boundary between Stanislaus and Santa Clara counties cuts through the eastern portion of the sheet, dividing the watershed between the East Fork Coyote Creek and the North Fork Orestimba Creek. In the southwest, the Grizzly Flats area and the winding Skunk Trail suggest the isolated character of this region before modern development reached these higher elevations.