1954 Map of Placitas

About this map

Placitas serves as a central hub in this mid-century survey of the northern Sandia Mountains region, where the high desert meets the edges of the Cibola National Forest. The landscape is a complex mosaic of ancestral land divisions and tribal territories, including the San Felipe Pueblo Grant and the San Antonio De Las Huertas Grant. This era captures a transition from traditional land use to early modern topography, marked by the presence of a Fish Hatchery and several abandoned coal mines that hint at the area's older extractive economy.