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1960 Map of Anchorage C-1

Name: 1960 Topographic Map of Anchorage C-1
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1987
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1987

About this map

The glacial reaches of the Chugach National Forest dominate this mid-century survey of the Chugach Mountains. A massive network of ice fields, including the Nelchina Glacier, Sylvester Glacier, and Powell Glacier, carve through the high-elevation terrain near the intersection of the Seward and Copper River Meridians. These frozen giants feed major drainage systems such as the South Fork Matanuska River and the Nelchina River.

Mount Siegfried stands as a prominent landmark in the southeastern portion of the quadrangle, overlooking the expansive Tarr Glacier. The map captures a wilderness devoid of roads or permanent settlements, where the landscape is defined by raw geomorphology. In the northern reaches, smaller water bodies like Little Lake and the Middle Creek drainage offer a rare contrast to the heavy ice cover found further south along the Harvard Glacier.