1958 Map of Wapato

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The Yakima River winds through this Central Washington landscape, defining a complex irrigation and transport corridor between the Rattlesnake Hills and the fertile Yakima Valley floor. The town of Wapato serves as a central hub, densely plotted with its High School, water tanks, and sewage disposal systems, while the Northern Pacific railroad tracks parallel the Sunnyside Canal and the river's path. The map illustrates the region's agricultural infrastructure in the late 1950s, showing a grid of family-named roads like Kays Road and Higgins Road serving rural outposts. Smaller settlements and rail sidings such as Donald, Ashue, and Yethonat appear alongside civic landmarks like the Parker Heights Grange and the McKinley School, reflecting a well-established rural community organized around the water diverted at Sunnyside Dam.