1970 Map of Cisco Springs

About this map

The dramatic southern escarpment of the Book Cliffs dominates this landscape, dropping away into a complex network of canyons and washes toward the Grand County desert floor. This 1970 survey, later updated with photorevised data in the 1980s, reveals a remote ranching and resource territory marked by critical water sources like Cisco Springs and several scattered livestock catchments such as Struchmine Pond and Dead Sheep Pond. The terrain transitions from the high elevations of Tepee Point and Corral Point down into the ironically named Death Valley and across the open expanse of Danish Flat. Movement through this high-desert environment is dictated by the topography, with a system of Jeep Trails navigating between the Bread Knolls and the steep walls of Corral Canyon. The map provides a detailed record of land use before modern changes, documenting the location of various Corrals and early Drill Holes that signal the region's agricultural and mineral history.