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1892 Map of Santa Clara

Name: 1892 Topographic Map of Santa Clara
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1909
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1909

About this map

The Rio Grande carves a dramatic path through the center of this terrain, flowing through the steep corridor of White Rock Cañon. This late nineteenth-century landscape is defined by the proximity of Pueblo settlements and early Spanish-American villages along the river valley and its tributaries. To the north, the area surrounding Española and Santa Clara shows a concentrated network of roads and small communities like Quartellas and Santa Cruz.

Infrastructure development is visible via the Santa Fe Southern Railway cutting through the eastern hills and the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad skirting the southern edge near Santo Domingo. High-altitude meadows such as Valle Grande and Valle Santa Rosa dominate the western volcanic landscape. The map provides a critical record of the region's geography before twentieth-century changes, documenting older place names like Wallace and the agricultural settlements of La Cienega and Cieneguilla along Santa Fe Creek.