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1952 Map of Woodlake

Name: 1952 Topographic Map of Woodlake
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1971
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1971

About this map

Woodlake serves as the industrial and residential hub of this Tulare County landscape, where the agricultural plains of the Antelope Valley meet the rising foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The town is anchored by Bravo Lake and defined by its transportation history, shown here at a transition point where the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad meets the Visalia Electric line. Educational and civic life is centered at the Woodlake Union High Sch and nearby Antelope Cem.

To the east, the Kaweah River dominates the geography, with the Terminus Reservoir and Lake Kaweah representing major mid-century water management projects. Scattered throughout the hills are legacy holdings like the Minnehaha Ranch and Vanderhoof Ranch, while smaller settlements such as Elderwood, Naranjo, and Lemoncove illustrate the early 20th-century citrus-growing belt supported by the Wutchumna Ditch network.