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1957 Map of Comstock Lake

Name: 1957 Topographic Map of Comstock Lake
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1958
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1958

About this map

The Cloquet Valley State Forest dominates this mid-century landscape in St. Louis County, where a dense network of glacial lakes and northern waterways defines the terrain. Central to the sheet is Comstock Lake and its neighbor Lower Comstock Lake, which feed into Gimlet Cr and the larger Whiteface River corridor. The map captures a wilderness area primarily used for timber and conservation, marked by an intricate hydrology including the phonetically distinct Us-Kab-Wan-Ka River and several isolated basins like Rush Lake and Berle Lake.

Surface features indicate a land shaped by the heavy hand of the ice age, with numerous small creeks such as Coolidge Creek and Tower Creek draining the forest floor. While human structures are sparse, the presence of various unimproved roads and survey benchmarks provides a detailed look at the infrastructure supporting the state forest during the 1950s. This survey is particularly useful for identifying specific lake shorelines and swamp margins before decades of modern ecological shifts.