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1971 Map of Big Bear City

Name: 1971 Topographic Map of Big Bear City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1980
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1980

About this map

Big Bear City serves as the residential anchor for this high-altitude landscape, featuring a detailed street grid with thoroughfares like Country Club Blvd and Sherwood Blvd. The town is positioned at the western edge of Baldwin Lake, which, along with the nearby Sugarloaf and Erwin Lake settlements, reveals the development patterns of the Bear Valley area. The map illustrates a transition from established residential communities to the surrounding San Bernardino National Forest.

Evidence of the region's mining heritage is pervasive, particularly in the northern reaches where the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad terminates near the Cushenbury Pit. Numerous historical workings are scattered across the terrain, including the Blackhawk Mine and Doble Mine near the vanished settlement of Doble. Geologists and historians can trace the intricate network of canyons and flats, such as Holcomb Valley and Arrastre Flat, which were central to the area's early mineral extraction and timber industries.