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2023 Map of Community Lake

Name: 2023 Topographic Map of Community Lake
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2023
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2023

About this map

The high desert landscape of the Snake River Plain is defined here by the volcanic expanse of Craters Of The Moon National Preserve and a network of water management features along the border of Lincoln and Minidoka counties. In a region where water is the primary driver of settlement and land use, small impoundments like Section Twenty-Eight Reservoir and the Kimama Marsh Reservoir dot the terrain. These catchments, alongside natural features like Community Lake and Jansen Lake, illustrate the historical efforts to capture runoff in a semi-arid environment.

Transportation through this area is largely defined by functional routes such as Bear Trap Cave Rd and Kimama Cave Rd, which navigate the township lines and section corners of T5S and T6S. The map also captures smaller hydrographic features including Section Twenty-Five Lake and the clustered North Farms Lakes, providing a record of the specialized agricultural and pastoral infrastructure required to sustain life on the lava-scoured plains of southern Idaho.