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1959 Map of Zaca Creek

Name: 1959 Topographic Map of Zaca Creek
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1985
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1985

About this map

Rancho Corral de Quati and the Rancho San Carlos de Jonata define this landscape of large historic land grants in the late 1950s. The terrain is deeply carved by numerous drainages, including Cañada de la Puente and Cañada Botella, which feed into the central Zaca Creek corridor. This era reveals the industrial footprint of the Zaca Field oil operations in the northeast, where scattered Oil Wells and a Oil Sump are mapped among the hills.

Transportation through the Purisima Hills is represented by a network of winding paths like the Jeep Trail and major thoroughfares such as Alisos Canyon Road. Historic ranching life is anchored at the Barham Ranch in the Los Alamos Valley. The map records a transition point where traditional cattle ranching on the Rancho Santa Ynez lands coexists with the mid-century infrastructure of the Zaca Substation.