2015 Map of Blue Wing Flat South

About this map

Blue Wing Flat dominates the central portion of this Pershing County landscape, a vast playa that defines the arid character of the Great Basin. To the south, the terrain descends into the northern reaches of Granite Springs Valley, while the drainage patterns of Sage Hen Wash provide evidence of the intermittent water flow that shapes these desert basins. The map illustrates a strictly natural topography, where the absence of developed roads or settlements highlights the isolation of this corner of Nevada. Surveyed under the Public Land Survey System, the grid lines of Townships such as t27n r27e and t28n r27e impose a human order over the playa and surrounding alluvial fans, marking out sections of public land in an otherwise open wilderness.