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2017 Map of Beaverdam Creek

Name: 2017 Topographic Map of Beaverdam Creek
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2017
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2017

About this map

Whitman National Forest dominates this Baker County landscape, where the high plateau of Sunflower Flat transitions into a complex system of drainages feeding the Burnt River. The map captures a high-elevation terrain punctuated by Beaverdam Buttes and Cottonwood Buttes, while numerous springs like Jack McCord Spring and Ernie Spring serve as critical water sources in the dry upland environment.

Settlement is concentrated along the southern river corridor at Hereford, where human engineering is visible in the network of irrigation features including Cleary Ditch, Cook Ditch, and Hereford Ditch. For genealogists and local historians, the Asa Fleetwood Family Cem provides a specific point of family history, situated near the river and the various gulches, such as Quartz Gulch and Long Gulch, that define the rugged local geography.