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1998 Map of Durmid

Name: 1998 Topographic Map of Durmid
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2002
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2002

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The Salton Sea State Recreation Area shoreline dominates this desert landscape, revealing a stark industrial and recreational geography at the end of the 20th century. Along the northeastern edge of the water, the Railway and a parallel Pipeline cut through the arid terrain, connecting small settlements like Ferrum, Durmid, and Bertram. This corridor represents a vital infrastructure link through the Colorado Desert, where water management is visible through the massive Coachella Canal and its associated Levee system in the northeast.

Evidence of historical land use is scattered across the dry washes and alluvial fans, from the oasis at Rancho Dos Palmas to the extraction operations at Bertram Mine. To the east, the boundary of the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range marks a significant military presence, while natural features like Bat Caves Buttes and Hunters Spring provide geographic anchors in an area defined by extreme elevations, recorded here as 228 feet below sea level.