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Surveys of Sacramento and San Joaquin Delta lands over
the years
Below are links to pdfs or jpgs of survey sheets we scanned so you could
see what the specific areas of the Delta looked like
at specific time
frames in history. Survey maps are different from other historical
maps because they were submitted and
approved by either the state or federal governments, were made for a
specific purpose, and were usually very large or had
many large sheets to allow for the details of the survey: land
elevation, land mass, vegitation, soil type and other important
land factors. These files are very large and detailed.
As time allows, we are scanning two important official survey sets we
have: 1906 survey of the San Joaquin River and the islands around
it, which includes elevations from that time; and the
1982 Atwater
survey of the Delta. The Atwater survey compiles three different
official surveys onto single map sheets,
which are very interesting to
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NOTE! Most of the files are very large so may take a
minute or more to load...but its worth the wait.
PDFs open in a new window. JPGs shown below are "thumbnails"-click
on each to see large size jpg.
1906 San Joaquin River &
elevations survey
(more will be added)
1906sj_survey.pdf
1906-andrus-island.pdf
1908-bradford-sherman.pdf |
1982 Atwater Survey
sheets:
atwater-21-mapkey.pdf
atwater-1-sacramento-merritt.pdf
atwater-1-sacramentoriver.pdf
atwater-3-prospect-liberty-ryer.pdf
atwater-4-sutter-ryer-grand-steamboat-sacramento.pdf
atwater-5-Bruceville-Mokelumne.pdf
atwater-6-riovista-grand-ryer.pdf
atwater-7-steamboat-slough-ryer-grand-sutter.pdf
atwater-8-newhope-mccormac-deadhorseisland-dcc.pdf
atwater-10-twitchell-brannan-jersey.pdf
atwater-12-mokelumne.pdf
matwater-15-woodward.pdf
atwater-16-holt-jonestract-roberts.pdf |
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1856-reportofsurvey.pdf
1855-full-survey-map.pdf
delta_historic map.pdf
1886delta.pdf
1886delta2.pdf
older_delta_map.pdf
sf_bay_maps.pdf
gasfieldsandlines.pdf
2008elevations.pdf
2008land_use.pdf
Ag_land.pdf
2001Elevation_map.pdf
2008elevations.pdf
2008land_use.pdf
Ag_land.pdf
Delta_Map.pdf
delta_historic map.pdf
gasfieldsandlines.pdf
historical inundations-ucb.pdf
Wetlands.pdf
1945-usbr-ca-resources-development.pdf
older_delta_map.pdf
sf_bay_maps.pdf
statewide-temps.pdf
ca-soiltypes.pdf
delta_fmmp2008.pdf
Delta_Map.pdf
historical inundations-ucb.pdf
Wetlands.pdf
Above: the best resource for when islands
were reclaimed, other than the farming
families themselves holding the original
grant deeds!
Map below shows the lands for irrigation TO BE SOLD or already sold for
agriculture and other beneficial uses in the 1870s. State and
Federal agencies have changed their minds 150 years later, and want to
take back much of the prime Delta farm lands for "public benefit"
purposes. Next perhaps the state officials will change their minds
about the whole Napa Valley, a much smaller region than the Delta, and
reclaim the Napa Valley for more "public benefit" purposes-like making
wine for all the lobbiest events. If large scale eminent domain
can be accomplished on Delta lands, no landowner with prime agriculture
land, recreation land or housing development will be safe from the 21st
Century politicians of California.
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1935 Soil Survey-notice "the Delta" of this time period
Above: 1855 map by the state geologist,
Mr. Blake...the written
accounts of the survey including portions of the Delta rivers are
quite informative!
1945-usbr-ca-resources-development.pdf
 
sf_bay_maps.pdf
The first soundings in the lower Sacramento
River
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wrong maps of the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta
Delta REvision summary and index |
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