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1954 Map of Baker Lake

Name: 1954 Topographic Map of Baker Lake
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1955
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1955

About this map

The St John River headwaters dominate this mid-century survey of the Maine woods, where the Southwest Branch meets the main stem. This is a landscape defined by water and timber operations, with the expansive Baker Lake and smaller St Francis Lake serving as focal points for the drainage of numerous tributaries like Turner Brook and Desolation Brook. The lack of formal towns reflects the township and range system characteristic of Northern Maine's unorganized territories, including sections such as Big 10.

Transportation throughout these remote tracts is limited to a network of woods roads and utility corridors, including a Telephone Trail and several Jeep Trails that follow the natural topography. These routes, along with private logging roads, provided the primary access for forest management and surveying before the modern logging road networks were fully established. Small landmarks like Turner Pond and the winding Baker Branch offer specific points of reference for researchers and local historians tracing the development of the Somerset County wilderness.