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1968 Map of Fish Springs

Name: 1968 Topographic Map of Fish Springs
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1978
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1978

About this map

Little Fish Lake Valley serves as the central corridor of this Nye County landscape, bounded by the Monitor Range and the Hot Creek Range. In the late 1960s, the area remained largely undeveloped, characterized by isolated water sources like Fish Springs and Sevenmile Spring that supported livestock and local transit. The presence of Clear Creek Ranch and a prospect near Stargo Spring indicates the traditional ranching and mineral exploration patterns of central Nevada.

Ephemeral drainages such as Sevenmile Wash and Luther Waddles Wash carve through the basin, while the western slopes of the Toiyabe National Forest feature distinctive landforms like the Miniature Grand Canyon. A network of jeep trails and a solitary Drill Hole point to more modern geological survey efforts during this era. This survey documents a critical habitat of high-desert springs and canyons before later shifts in land management and environmental changes altered the water table of these basins.