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1911 Map of Hahns Peak

Name: 1911 Topographic Map of Hahns Peak
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1954
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1954

About this map

Hahn's Peak and the high mountain reaches of the Continental Divide anchor this 1910-1911 survey of the northern Park Range. The map captures a transition between the mining camps and high-country ranching life that defined the era. Remote settlements like Pearl and Slavonia appear alongside numerous rangeland operations such as the Boettcher Ranch and Kinney Road Ranch. Education for the children of homesteaders and miners was decentralized, evidenced by isolated campus labels for Moon Hill School, Mad Creek School, and Butler School.

The industrial footprint of the day is marked by the Elkhorn Mine near Whisky Park and a Sawmill on Sawmill Creek. Diverse alpine features like Fryingpan Basin, Big Creek Lakes, and Mt Zirkel dominate the eastern half of the sheet, while the Yampa River flows through the lower elevations to the south. This topographic study reveals the sparse but intentional human presence across Routt and Jackson counties at the start of the twentieth century.