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1985 Map of Fort Davis

Name: 1985 Topographic Map of Fort Davis
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1994
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1994

About this map

Fort Davis National Historic Site and the surrounding high desert terrain anchor this mid-1980s topographic study of West Texas. The landscape is defined by the massive volcanic features of the Barrilla Mountains and the transition from the peaks of Davis Mountains State Park into the vast basins of the Augustine Flat. In the north, the irrigation-fed agriculture of the Balmorhea area contrasts with the arid canyonlands to the south.

Water management and transportation are central to the region's layout, with Balmorhea Lake providing a vital reservoir and drainage systems like Limpia Creek and Coyanosa Draw carving through the mountain gaps. For those tracing the evolution of these frontier outposts, the map captures the community of Fort Davis at a point when its nineteenth-century military history was being preserved alongside modern transit routes like Highway 17 and Highway 118.