1923 Map of Tierra Loma School

About this map

The Tierra Loma School stands as a lonely point of civic infrastructure in this 1920s landscape on the western edge of the San Joaquin Valley. Situated at the base of the Panoche Hills, the schoolhouse serves a network of section lines and faint trails that crisscross the arid flats. This preliminary survey by Department of the Interior engineers reveals a sharp contrast between the organized grid of the valley floor and the rugged, unsurveyed terrain to the west. To the south, Panoche Creek winds through the landscape, providing a critical natural landmark in an area otherwise defined by its sparse settlement and the transitional zone where the alluvial plains meet the rising hills of the Coast Ranges.