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More Maps More Maps from 1701-2021
Keeps on getting better and better... we are working hard to fulfill your historic interest in Baja's past!
Click here
https://vivabaja.com/maps/
to see these and more!:
1701 Padre Eusebio Kino Map
1747 Padre Fernando Consag Map
1757 Jesuit Mission Map (data from ~1747)
1768 Baja California and Mexico Map
1823 Baja & Alta California Map
1884 Baja California Map
1886 Baja California Map
1904 Baja California Postal Route Map
1918 David Goldbaum Baja California Norte Map (printed in 1925)
1919 National Academy of Sciences Baja California Map
1922 Baja California Map
1923 & 1928 Baja California Geographical Maps
1927 Auto Club Maps (San Diego to south of San Quintín)
1930 Edward Knight (detailed) Baja California Map
1930 Auto Club of Southern California Baja California Map
1930’s ? Auto Club of Southern Cal. Baja California Map (with missions)
1934 Auto Club (of Southern California) Baja California Map
1939 Rand McNally Baja California Road Map
1946 Baja California Map
1948 Geology Map of Baja California
1949 Orozco Northern Baja California Map
1949 Orozco Baja California Peninsula Map
1954 El Camino Real location maps by Howard Gulick, stitched together
1955 Auto Club Baja California Map
1956 Howard Gulick (Lower California Guidebook) Maps, stitched
1958 Howard Gulick (Lower California Guidebook) Maps, stitched (coming soon)
1958 Shell Oil Map of Baja California
1959 Auto Club Map of Baja California
1962 Howard Gulick (Lower California Guidebook) Maps
1962-1967 Howard Gulick Maps ‘stitched’ together
1962 Auto Club Map of Baja California
1962 Bud Bernhard’s Valle de San Felipe/ Valle Chico Canyons Map
1963 Bud Bernhard’s San Pedro Mártir Plateau Map
1966 Ray Cannon’s Sea of Cortez Book Map
1967 Mike McMahan wall map (Baja California)
1968 Auto Club Guidebook Map of Gonzaga Bay
1969 Auto Club Map of Northern Baja California
1969 Auto Club Map of Central and Southern Baja California
1970 & 1972 Cliff Cross ‘birds-eye-view’ (and all his) Baja Guide Maps
1971 Auto Club Map of Northern Baja California
1971 Auto Club Map of Central and Southern Baja California
1971 Reconnaissance Geologic Map of Baja Norte (3 parts):
Northern Baja Norte
Central Baja Norte
Southern Baja Norte
1972* Cooper Graphics Baja Road Map (*data from after 1974)
1974 Auto Club Map of Northern Baja California
1974 Auto Club Map of Central and Southern Baja California
1974 Harry Crosby El Camino Real Maps stitched together
1975 Auto Club Map of Baja California
1975 Baja California Guidebook Maps (stitched)
1975 Airports of Baja California Map
1975 Harry Crosby Painted Caves Maps
1977 Harry Crosby El Camino Real Maps stitched together
1997 Auto Club Map of Baja California
2000 Auto Club Map of Baja California
2001 Auto Club Map of Baja California
2003 Auto Club Map of Baja California
2003 Baja California Almanac Folding Map
2004 Auto Club Map of Baja California
2004 Peninsula Map from Baja Almanac & Discover Baja
2007 Auto Club Map of Baja California (coming soon)
2010 Auto Club Map of Baja California (the final edition)
2015 Baja California Almanac (unpublished) Maps (LINK)
2018 El Camino Real trails topo map. Tracks from CaminoRealBaja.com
El Camino Real on a terrain map. Tracks from CaminoRealBaja.com
2018-2021 Baja Road Guide Maps by David Kier
[Edited on 1-8-2022 by David K]
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AlanDavid90
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That's incredible, a geographical evolution of Baja California it's here
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Good link! I will try to remember to look for it in the future.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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AlanDavid90
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Although they could add maps of the cities of the peninsula in alphabetical order to see how they changed geographically
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For completeness, you should add links for INEGI, nat geo, guia roji, red nacional de caminos, etc.
Woke!
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will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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David K
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Goat, if you even bother to look in the link, before you type, you would see INEGI is in there, at the top. I didn't have it in the list on the post
because it is NOT a historical map (beyond the year it was made).
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David K
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The really interesting hand-drawn Mines and Roads Map of 1905 has been added to the links, in two zoom choices for detail. It covers the Pacific side
from Mission San Miguel (today's town of La Misión, north of Ensenada) way down the Seven Sisters to Punta Rocoso (near Santa Rosalillita). The
center of the peninsula to Laguna Chapala. Finally, some of the Gulf side near Gonzaga Bay and an insert map of San Felipe to the Colorado River.
Go to 1905 on this page: https://vivabaja.com/maps/
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Great collection of maps.
Sure is good to have the collection all in one place.
DK - Good job.
Regarding INEGI maps. I have found little change from the maps now available from the oldest to the newest. I wonder if there are archives that allow
looking at the old maps not currently shown in the INEGI link.
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David K
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Quote: Originally posted by PaulW  | Great collection of maps.
Sure is good to have the collection all in one place.
DK - Good job.
Regarding INEGI maps. I have found little change from the maps now available from the oldest to the newest. I wonder if there are archives that allow
looking at the old maps not currently shown in the INEGI link. |
On the INEGI site, there is an option to pick from different year maps. Maybe geoffff has some more ideas?
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Wondering how much of Mexico is ejido land? We have added a new map link to one showing all the ejidos. Click on the i button at the top to see the
name and data of each ejido. The link is in the top group, by the INEGI link.
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K | The really interesting hand-drawn Mines and Roads Map of 1905 has been added to the links, in two zoom choices for detail. It covers the Pacific side
from Mission San Miguel (today's town of La Misión, north of Ensenada) way down the Seven Sisters to Punta Rocoso (near Santa Rosalillita). The
center of the peninsula to Laguna Chapala. Finally, some of the Gulf side near Gonzaga Bay and an insert map of San Felipe to the Colorado River.
Go to 1905 on this page: https://vivabaja.com/maps/ |
Here is a little Baja history. I saw this 1905 mining map drawn by Richard Stephens years ago, so I did a Google search, and this popped up:
carlos_pacheco.
This is the plot plan for Ensenada (aka Carlos Pacheco) drawn by the same Richard Stephens.
Stephens, a Canadian, was a land surveyor.
[Edited on 1-13-2022 by bajaric]
[Edited on 8-20-2022 by bajaric]
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David K
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GREAT STORY!
Thank you, Ric for sharing that. 
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| Quote: Originally posted by Lance S. | That 1905 map is alot of fun.
It shows Cerro Punta Prieta rather than the town.
Mina Columbia 28°56'00"N 114°14'44"W
A Cuesta for Harald on the trail from Mina Columbia to Bahia Los Ojitos. 28°55'43"N 114°15'02"W
Perhaps Bahia Los Ojitos was a roadstead for the mine, the Goldbaum map shows an Anchorage there.
The Las Palomas shown is the same one as shown on the geology map. The site of the current Rancho La Misera?
[Edited on 1-21-2022 by Lance S.] |
yes, thank you - I have that Cuesta
but I lost track of that trail on the downhill side
there is an access road that also has a trail to Mina Columbia
but it could also be an unrelated mine
28°53'33.13"N, 114°15'10.01"W
[Edited on 1-21-2022 by 4x4abc]
Harald Pietschmann
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Yes the 1905 is a cool map. Richard Stephens started out working for the International Company, then went on to become a freelance mining surveyor.
I found his diary in the San Diego History Center.
Good eye to spot that trail going from Mina Columbia to the west! I had not seen that before. Within just a couple of years there was a better road
to the landing at Santa Rosalillita, then called Santa Rosalia. Margaret Brown Baldwin mentioned riding 23 miles in a wagon to from Punta Prieta to
Santa Rosalia to meet the monthly resupply ship in this article:
https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/1976/october/memoriesima...
click "back to article" to read the article
Punta Prieta the town probably got its name from Punta Prieta, the point, which would have been a landmark for ships supplying the mines in the area.
Punta Prieta was also called Mina Columbia for a time, and the derelict RV park at Parador Punta Prieta is still called Mina Columbia. The mine must
have been of some significance.
The Brown mentioned in the article was employed at the El Desengeno mine, which curiously is not shown on Stephen's map. It must have opened shortly
after 1905. Brown's son went on to manage mining operations at El Marmol.
Enough Baja mining trivia, for now --
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Thanks Ric for the additional trivia... Desengaño dates to the 1930s. One of its miners was a celebrity in the region in the 1960s-1990s.
Photos of him from Howard Gulick and Mando (Mothership) are posted here. Maybe you knew him, Eliodoro Arce?
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=93323
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=93946
Three photos from Howard Gulick of Eliodoro, in 1961, near Yubay: https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb6246999c
https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb20831313
https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb03766298
[Edited on 1-21-2022 by David K]
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Somehow I thought that Brown worked at El Desengano in 1907 but I could be wrong. Looking at your maps I do not see Desengano on any of them before
1930. Maybe he worked at Mina Columbia or the mines around Leon Grande, the spring.
Excellent maps, by the way. Truly a remarkable resource for Baja history buffs. I look at them frequently.
No, I never knew Eliodoro Arce. I do not live in Baja, I just go down there for a few times a year, usually off by myself in the middle of nowhere so
have not met too many of the locals.
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| Quote: Originally posted by bajaric | Somehow I thought that Brown worked at El Desengano in 1907 but I could be wrong. Looking at your maps I do not see Desengano on any of them before
1930. Maybe he worked at Mina Columbia or the mines around Leon Grande, the spring.
Excellent maps, by the way. Truly a remarkable resource for Baja history buffs. I look at them frequently.
No, I never knew Eliodoro Arce. I do not live in Baja, I just go down there for a few times a year, usually off by myself in the middle of nowhere so
have not met too many of the locals.
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Right... Glad you like the maps at VivaBaja.com and we have to thank geoffff for his skills in making them so viewable, too.
Eliodoro lived near Desengaño... Do you recall his 'home'? It was just north of the old L.A. Bay road, between Hwy. 1 and Desengaño. An abandoned
camper or van was there, after he passed away... I saw it around 2002. He always liked to stay near the gold. I think Herman Hill (author of Baja's
Hidden Gold) got a lot of info from Eliodoro?
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Have a look at this new page I made to honor the memory of an old prospector who touched the heart of all who knew him, Eliodoro Arce of El Desengaño
y Tinaja de Yubay: https://vivabaja.com/eliodoro/
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