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1979 Map of Baker Point

Name: 1979 Topographic Map of Baker Point
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1986
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1986

About this map

The Clatsop State Forest covers much of this Columbia County landscape, where the Clatskanie River and its tributary, the Little Clatskanie River, carve through the terrain. Evidence of the region's timber and resource management is visible through the network of roads, jeep trails, and numerous extraction sites such as the Oak Ranch Pit and various other locations marked simply as Quarry. Local landmarks like Baker Point and Mount Cedara provide prominent topographic relief above the winding watercourses of Lava Creek and Carous Creek.

Small-scale infrastructure is noted at Oak Ranch and Camp Wilkerson, reflecting the area's rural character in the late 1970s. For genealogists and local historians, the map identifies isolated points of interest including a remote Cem and several survey markers like BM 1751. The presence of an airstrip and roads like the Pittsburg St Helens Road illustrate the transportation links connecting these forested uplands to the larger Columbia River drainage.