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1915 Map of Westport

Name: 1915 Topographic Map of Westport
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1915
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1915

About this map

The confluence of the Tuolumne River and the San Joaquin River dominates this Stanislaus County landscape, revealing a transition from sprawling Mexican land grants to a formal American irrigation grid. Land north of the San Joaquin River is organized around a network of canals, including Lateral No 1, Lateral No 2, and Lateral No 3, which supported the early 20th-century agricultural expansion of the Central Valley.

Social life in this era was anchored by small rural schoolhouses and neighborhood churches, which served the farming families within the Modesto City Bdy periphery. The map preserves the locations of several local landmarks, such as Laird School near Grayson Road and the central Westport Church. To the south, the irregular boundaries of the Rancho Del Puerto and El Pescadero (Grimes) stand in sharp contrast to the rigid section lines of the modern survey, marking the persistent footprint of older Spanish and Mexican cattle-ranching estates.