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1955 Map of San Felipe

Name: 1955 Topographic Map of San Felipe
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1968
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1968

About this map

San Felipe and the surrounding agricultural valleys of the Santa Clara and San Benito border area define this mid-century landscape. The Southern Pacific railroad corridor cuts across the Llano Del Tequisquita, serving a rural economy anchored by family-named roads like Hudner Lane and Aquistipace Road. The drainage patterns are prominent, centered on the Tequisquita Slough and San Felipe Lake, which collect runoff from the Pacheco Creek before it crosses toward the Pajaro River.

Land use is strictly divided between the intensive orchard and field crops of the Hollister Valley and the dry, elevated grazing lands of the Flint Hills and Lomerias Muertas. Local infrastructure of the 1950s is well-documented, featuring the Hollister Municipal Airport, several small irrigation reservoirs, and rural schoolhouses such as Pacheco Sch and Ausaymas Sch that served these distributed ranching communities.