2015 Map of Tupman

About this map

Tupman serves as a focal point in this portion of the San Joaquin Valley, situated at the base of the prominent Elk Hills. The landscape is a complex network of industrial water management, dominated by the massive Governor Edmund G Brown California Aqueduct and the historic course of the Kern River. Numerous irrigation and drainage features, including the Cross Valley Canal, Inlet Canal, and Outlet Canal, illustrate the intensive agricultural engineering required to sustain the Central Valley. In the northern reaches, the Goose Lake Slough and James and Dixon Canal further underscore this heavily modified hydrology. The map captures a sophisticated infrastructure of roads like Tupman Rd and S Enos Ln that link the oil-rich uplands with the cultivated plains during the early twenty-first century.