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1899 Map of Fortymile

Name: 1899 Topographic Map of Fortymile
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1910
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1910

About this map

The Eagle settlement on the banks of the Yukon River serves as the northern anchor for this reconnaissance survey, conducted just as the gold rush era reshaped the interior of Alaska. The map traces a network of post offices and camps essential to early miners and prospectors, including Steel Creek P.O. and Jack Wade P.O. in the southeast, and Chicken P.O. and Franklin P.O. near the south fork of the river system.

Critical infrastructure of the period is documented through the Military Telegraph line and various stretches of the Winter Trail, which provided the only reliable overland passage through the interior. Notable topographic landmarks such as Glacier Mountain and Fortymile Dome are surveyed alongside numerous gold-bearing tributaries like Seventymile Creek and American Creek, illustrating the remote and difficult terrain where early Alaskan mining communities first took root along the international Boundary Line.