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1953 Map of Beaver Creek

Name: 1953 Topographic Map of Beaver Creek
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1967
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1967

About this map

The Shirley Mountains dominate this high-elevation landscape of Carbon County, where the transition from the Shirley Basin floor leads into a complex network of canyons and meadows. Surveyed in the early 1950s as part of the Missouri River Basin development program, the area shows clear signs of its ranching history and the challenges of high-country settlement. Several sites are explicitly noted as uninhabited, including Tikkmen Ranch (Abandoned) near Lost Creek and Salmi Ranch (Abandoned) along the banks of Johnson Canyon.

Transport is limited to a network of Jeep Trails that navigate through named landmarks like Button Meadows and Headquarters Park. Water resources are central to the terrain's utility, marked by Cowden Reservoir to the north and numerous drainages like Sage Creek and Balsam Draw. The presence of the Campbell Headquarters Camp in the southeast corner indicates the ongoing managed use of these uplands for livestock or forestry long after the earlier homesteads were vacated.