1942 Map of Central City

About this map

Central City and the surrounding mining districts are captured here at a critical moment in 1942, reflecting decades of hard-rock extraction and the early twentieth-century shift toward large-scale industrial works. The landscape is heavily marked by the legacy of the Gold Rush, with dozens of named gulches and hills like Winnebago Hill, Bates Hill, and Mammoth Hill clustered near the town sites. Further into the mountains, infrastructure like the Fall River Power Plant and an Abandoned Flume near Mt Pisgah illustrate the immense engineering required to move water and power through this high-altitude terrain.