1958 Map of Bengough Hill

About this map

Industrial energy and early western transit routes converge in this 1958 survey of Albany and Carbon counties. The Overland Trail cuts across the center of the landscape, marking a path for historic emigrant travel that predates the modern infrastructure seen elsewhere on the sheet. The local economy of the late 1950s is defined by resource extraction, anchored by the Dutton Creek Oil Field and Cooper Cove Oil Field, where numerous gas wells and pumping stations are distributed among the high-plains terrain.