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Mexican Colony, California Map Art
Building by building, with labeled streets and shaded relief.
12" x 18" Archival Matte Print
A Map of Home. A Work of Art.
Explore Mexican Colony, California from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures Mexican Colony building by building, with labeled streets, familiar landmarks, and shaded topographical relief that highlights the natural contours of the landscape.
Combining modern data with the timeless character of a vintage atlas, this map is just as interesting up close as it is beautiful on the wall. Whether you grew up in Mexican Colony, spent memorable years there, or call it home today, this unique map is a great way to celebrate a place that means something to you. Zoom in on the preview to look for your street, and then order a print to put your memories on the wall.
Three ways to hang it
Unframed archival matte, a black wood frame or a white wood frame.
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Geography Worth Displaying
This map was created using accurate cartographic data and authoritative geographic sources, including the U.S. Geological Survey and the Census Bureau. The map brings together terrain, waterways, roads, and building detail. The majority of the streets are labeled, houses are accurately depicted, and the topography is derived from government sources. Combining local data with carefully composed color and shading leads to this beautifully detailed Mexican Colony artwork for your wall.
Rather than simply showing street outlines, we’ve included as many of the street names as we could reasonably fit on the map while keeping their names legible. Zoom in on the high resolution preview to see exactly what’s on the map. We truly set out to create a statement piece for anyone who loves Mexican Colony. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of Mexican Colony brings back fond memories.
Read the story behind this map of Mexican Colony, California from 2026.
Find your street
Names on the Mexican Colony map
Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.
Streets and roads5
- Mannel Avenue
- Paseo de Pico Street
- Rodriguez Street
- Martinez Street
- Burbank Street
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About Mexican Colony, California
Mexican Colony is a community in Kern County, 2 miles south of Shafter. Spanish speakers know it as Colonia Mexicana, short for La Colonia Mexicana de Shafter, and the name records the people who made it.
Around 1927, Mexican families who had been forced from their homes elsewhere settled on this land. The colony was founded by Margarita Rodriguez and her husband, a man everyone called Big John. The families who joined them had little in the way of public services, so they built a neighborhood and ways of looking after one another on their own.
- Water first, sewers laterDora Hernandez-Jara, a resident of the colony for more than 75 years, remembers that the neighbors' first project was a water system they set up by themselves. They then spent years pressing Kern County for more, and in the mid-1970s the colony finally got sidewalks and a sewer system.
- A century marked in 2026In January 2026 the South Kern Sol marked 100 years of the colony, telling how its families raised a community with their own hands at a time when few services reached them.
- 283 people in 2020The 2020 census counted 283 people in Mexican Colony, which sits at an elevation of 331 feet on the flat farmland below Shafter.
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The art of mapping a place
How This Map Was Made
Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.
The view from above
Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.
The shape of the land
Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.
The details of home
Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.
Geography becomes art
Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.
Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.
The Details
About This Print
Choose an archival matte print, or a black or white Ayous wood frame. The archival matte print is unframed.
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Materials & Craftsmanship
A contemporary map with the character of a classic atlas, printed on archival matte paper. Optional frames are made from Ayous wood.
Your printed map does not include the watermark shown in the full-map preview.
Shipping & Delivery
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Returns and damaged prints
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