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2015 Map of Arbuckle Mountain

Name: 2015 Topographic Map of Arbuckle Mountain
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2015
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2015

About this map

Arbuckle Mountain and the Trinity Mountains anchor this high-elevation terrain along the border of Trinity Co and Shasta Co. The landscape is defined by a dense network of drainages and dramatic elevation changes, with named points like Old Man Rock and Anderson Point rising above deeply carved ravines. The southern portion of the quadrangle shows the transition from steep peaks to the more open Arbuckle Basin, where the local road network begins to coalesce around Platina Rd.

A legacy of early resource extraction and frontier naming is evident in the colorful nomenclature of the local gulches. Numerous smaller waterways, such as Hell Roaring Gulch, Cut-Throat Gulch, and Tincup Gulch, feed into larger systems like the Middle Fork Cottonwood Cr. These labels, alongside features like Bullion Gulch and Bear Wallow Gulch, provide a window into the era of small-scale prospecting and the rugged human history of these California highlands.