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1956 Map of Charley River A-4

Name: 1956 Topographic Map of Charley River A-4
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1960
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1960

About this map

The Charley River dominates this interior Alaskan landscape, shown here as it was surveyed through aerial photography in the mid-1950s. The drainage pattern reveals a dense network of tributaries, many bearing names that reflect the region's prospecting history, such as Nome Stake Creek and Bonanza Creek. The terrain is defined by dramatic elevation changes, moving from the low-lying Flat areas near the main river channel to the high ridges where headwaters like Derwent Creek and Uncompahgre Creek originate.

While no roads or trails were documented at the time of this 1956 field annotation, the naming of features like Boston Gulch and Fisher Creek points to the reach of early twentieth-century miners and explorers. The map serves as a record of the remote wilderness before modern development, capturing the untouched state of the Charley River corridor and its surrounding basins, including Silvia Creek and Marie Creek.