Over the next few months in 2017 this page will be updated with links to other sources for historic maps of the Delta
| Delta History In Maps (links to resources) | |
| To understand the current water wars of California, one has to look back at how the Delta has been used (and abused by to much water export) since California became a state. People came here for the yellow gold but 21st century wealth and politics is all about the clear liquid “gold”…water. This page provides links to good reference websites and also copies of maps and documents gathered over the last 25 years. Resource Links: http://DeltaREvision.com And here is my Delta timeline pdf with links to documents you can find online: deltahistory-links.pdf Video of the Delta: snug_video_index.htm |
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| 1906-08 San Joaquin Survey (maps uploaded 2/9/2015) 1906-1908 Steamboat Slough & Sacramento River Survey (maps uploaded 2/10/2015) 1982 (1978) Atwater Survey (maps uploaded 2/9/2015) 1880 Hall map of irrigation |
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| Shipwrecks of Steamboat Slough from 1848 to 1890 pdf of shipwrecksPaintings of Steamboat travelHistoric Delta_maps/Historic (DeltaREvision website) Historic Shipwrecks on Steamboat SloughHistoric Steamboat Slough and the Sacramento River area Timeline of Delta levee improvements and floods by the USACE: Presentation regarding the history of the Delta levees: Not about to fail! |
Click on maps below to see large versions of each one. Below is a section of an official California map showing the location of Steamboat Slough and “Old River” which is what the Sacramento River was called for the reach between Rio Vista to above Locke. |
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1875record-no_rights_reserved_by_state.pdf
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images-historic/1963survey.pdf
1985_SHD.pdf |
| images-historic/salmon_steamboat_slough_hutching.pdf | |