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1931 Map of Towne Oil Station

Name: 1931 Topographic Map of Towne Oil Station
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1931
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1931

About this map

Towne Oil Station sits at the heart of this Central Valley landscape, illustrating the industrial and agricultural infrastructure of Fresno County during the late 1920s. The grid of service roads, including Davis Ave and Napa Ave, reveals a highly organized territory transitioning from wild expanses to managed development. Water management is critical in this arid environment, evidenced by the presence of the Crescent Ditch in the northeast corner of the sheet.

Local education and larger-scale corporate farming ventures are represented by the Westside Sch and the two distinct locations of the Kings County Dev Co Farm No 1 and Kings County Dev Co Farm No 2. These sites, along with a network of long avenues like Elkhorn Avenue and Mt Whitney Ave, show how the land was partitioned for commercial agriculture and rural settlement before the massive expansion of the modern era.