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1990 Map of San Pedro

Name: 1990 Topographic Map of San Pedro
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1996
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1996

About this map

San Pedro Mountain and South Mountain dominate this high-desert landscape on the border of Santa Fe and Bernalillo counties. The map captures a region defined by historical transit and extraction, where the Old Stagecoach Road and an Old Railroad Grade cut across the basin floors of Homes Valley and the surrounding plains. The settlement pattern is sparse, centered on legacy ranching operations like the Stewart Ranch and Simmons Ranch, alongside the mining activity evidenced by an Open Pit Mine and Mine Tailings near the northern slopes.

Genealogists will find significant value in the location of the San Pedro Cemetery near the community of San Pedro, as well as the remote Hyer Cemetery situated along Hyer Draw. These isolated landmarks, along with family-named sites such as Horton Place and the Palo Amarillo Ranch, provide concrete points for tracing nineteenth and twentieth-century rural habitation in the New Mexican backcountry.