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1896 Map of Redondo

Name: 1896 Topographic Map of Redondo
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1916
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1916

About this map

Drum Barracks stands near the burgeoning waterfront of Wilmington, a key landmark on this coastal landscape surveyed in the mid-1890s. The region is defined by expansive land grants such as Sausal Redondo and Paso de la Tijera, where small agricultural and railway settlements like Inglewood, Gardena, and Wiseburn have begun to take root along the Redondo and Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad lines. To the south, the massive San Pedro Hills rise sharply from the Pacific, overlooking a complex shoreline of points and coves including Malaga Cove and Rocky Pt.

Significant wetlands dominate the northern and eastern portions of the map, from the Ballona Lagoon at Port Ballona to the inland Nigger Slough and Bixby Slough. These water bodies and their connecting creeks, like Ballona Creek, suggest the natural drainage patterns of the Los Angeles basin before the extensive channelization of the 20th century. Local historians can trace the early layout of places like South Santa Monica and the isolated Mormon Id. in the Wilmington Lagoon.