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1924 Map of Stokes Mountain

Name: 1924 Topographic Map of Stokes Mountain
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1929
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1929

About this map

Stokes Mountain dominates this portion of Tulare County, rising sharply above the fertile basin of Woodlake Valley. Surveyors T.H. Moncure and C.A. Stonesifer recorded a landscape defined by dramatic elevation changes, where the agricultural potential of the valley floor meets the steep, island-like ridges of the Sierra Nevada foothills. The cultural footprint of the early 1920s is visible in the isolated placement of the Elda School and the presence of the A T & S F railroad skirts the southwestern edge of the terrain.

Because large portions of the topography were already covered by existing surveys of the Dinuba area, this sheet focuses on the distinct elevations of the mountain and its immediate drainages, including unnamed seasonal creeks and a prominent Canyon to the east. The map captures a specific moment in Central Valley development before the extensive water management and irrigation expansion of later decades transformed the character of these foothill valleys.