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1927 Map of Traver

Name: 1927 Topographic Map of Traver
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1927
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1927

About this map

The Southern Pacific railroad cuts a straight diagonal through this Central Valley landscape, defining the layout of Traver and the surrounding agricultural grid. Surveyed in the mid-1920s, the terrain is defined by a complex network of irrigation and water management, where the Kings River and St Johns River feed into numerous smaller channels like Cottonwood Creek and the Settlers Ditch. This era shows a rural landscape transitioning from open range to a highly organized patchwork of family-named avenues and school districts.

Local education is anchored by the Kennedy School and Wilson School, which served the farming families established along thoroughfares like Rio Vista Ave and Mt Whitney Ave. The map captures the boundary line between Kings Co and Tulare Co, illustrating how early infrastructure followed both the natural flow of Cross Creek and the rigid township lines of the Central Valley's growing agricultural economy.