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2013 Map of Buckskin Point

Name: 2013 Topographic Map of Buckskin Point
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2013
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2013

About this map

White River flows through the southern portion of this Rio Blanco County landscape, defining the character of the valley floor at Powell Park. In this high-desert environment, an intricate network of irrigation systems like the Niblock Ditch, Powell Park Ditch, and Hay Bretherton Ditch trace the essential movement of water from the river and Strawberry Creek to support the local agricultural economy.

Rising above the irrigated lowlands, the terrain transitions into a complex series of ridges and canyons, most notably marked by Buckskin Point and Buckskin Mesa. The map documents numerous named landforms including The Monument, Black Mountain, and the Gray Hills, while a myriad of drainages such as Windy Gulch and Beefsteak Gulch carve into the upland plateaus. These features, many bearing local family or descriptive names, provide a precise record of the geography north of Meeker in the early twenty-first century.