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2018 Map of Ashton

Name: 2018 Topographic Map of Ashton
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2018
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2018

About this map

The Amargosa River cuts through this arid basin where the Amargosa Desert meets the Mojave Desert. This landscape is defined by its borderlands, sitting at the junction of Nye County, Nevada, and Inyo County, California. The small settlement of Ashton serves as a lone point of reference along the corridor of Highway 95, which traverses the northern reaches of the quadrangle.

In the southwestern corner, the boundary of Death Valley National Park marks a transition from the broad alluvial plains into the rising terrain of the Funeral Mountains vicinity. The map documents a sparsely populated but vital transit zone, where the intermittent drainage of the Amargosa River and the surveyed lines of the Public Land Survey System, including t15s r47e, provide the only formal structure to the open desert expanse.