1947 Map of Plano

About this map

Kern County's high-desert landscape appears here in a transition period following World War II, when military surveillance techniques were first being adapted for civil cartography. The terrain is defined by the Eighth Standard Parallel South, a critical surveying baseline that anchors the region's land subdivision. Infrastructure is dominated by the heavy presence of two major western transit corridors, the Southern Pacific and the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroads, which parallel each other through the arid expanse. Resource extraction is represented by the Lucky Dog Mine, providing a specific point of interest for mining historians or researchers tracing early 20th-century prospecting sites in the Mojave's northwestern reaches.