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1903 Map of Coeur D'Alene District

Name: 1903 Topographic Map of Coeur D'Alene District
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1903
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1903

About this map

Wallace serves as the bustling central hub of this mineral-rich district, where the canyon floors are tightly packed with the infrastructure of the early 20th-century silver and lead boom. The map illustrates a landscape transformed by industrial extraction, with the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. and Northern Pacific Railroad providing vital links through the mountain passes to connect remote operations like the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mines and Morning Mines to global markets.

Beyond the primary settlements of Kellogg and Mullan, the terrain is etched with dozens of gulches and peaks that define the hardrock mining era. Small outposts and stations such as Beaver Station and Carbon Center appear along the drainage of the North Fork Coeur d'Alene River. The survey also marks the high-altitude boundary between Idaho and Montana along the crest of the Coeur d'Alene Mountains, documenting the region just after the peak of its initial discovery phase.