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1951 Map of Healy D-2

Name: 1951 Topographic Map of Healy D-2
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1964
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1964

About this map

Wood River cuts a prominent north-south path through this 1951 interior Alaska landscape, providing the primary drainage for numerous glacial and mountain tributaries. The terrain is defined by high peaks such as Mystic Mountain and deep topographic features like the Canyon in the west and Grizzly in the southwest. A lone Cabin situated along the riverbanks represents the only human structural footprint in this expansive wilderness, which was surveyed by the Geological Survey via photogrammetric methods from 1949 aerial photography.

Water systems dominate the geography, from the Little West Fork Delta River in the southeast to the complex network of creeks including Coal Creek, Sheep Creek, and Kansas Creek. The presence of the Fairbanks Meridian underscores the surveying challenges of the era, where land lines represented unsurveyed and unmarked locations predetermined by the Bureau of Land Management in a region with no established roads or trails.