1929 Map of Colville

About this map

Colville sits as the hub of a landscape defined by intensive resource extraction and frontier transit in the late 1920s. The Northern Great Railway tracks follow the Columbia River and its tributaries, connecting mining outposts like Northport and Marble to the broader regional economy. This era represents a peak of industrial variety in Stevens County, where the map documents an incredible density of named mining operations, from the Electric Point Mine and Gladstone Mine in the north to the Old Dominion Mine further south.