Amargosa River and Fortymile Wash define the arid drainage patterns of this desert landscape on the California-Nevada border. The terrain is marked by the prominence of the Funeral Mountains Pyramid Peak to the southwest, while the northeastern corner shows a developing grid of named roads including Casada Rd and Mecca Rd. The small settlement of Scranton sits along the eastern edge, connected to the surrounding region by local routes like Invite Rd. The juxtaposition of these early 21st-century residential footprints against the stark geology of the Amargosa basin illustrates the modern human expansion into high-desert environments.
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1908 · Furnace Creek
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1910 · Furnace Creek
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1942 · Skull Mountain
USGS Topo · 1:125,000
1942 · Bullfrog
USGS Topo · 1:125,000
1948 · Death Valley
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1952 · Ash Meadows
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1952 · Ryan
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1952 · Big Dune
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1954 · Death Valley
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1956 · Death Valley
USGS Topo · 1:250,000