1952 Map of Holy Cross A-6

About this map

The Nageethuk River and Kutuk River define the drainage of this interior Alaskan landscape, which was meticulously documented through photogrammetric methods using aerial photography from 1951 and 1952. The terrain is a complex matrix of water and elevation, with countless unnamed lakes and ponds concentrated in the northern and western sections of the quadrangle. These water bodies are interspersed with low-lying marshy ground, contrasting with the more defined contour lines that rise toward the eastern edge of the sheet. The survey, produced as a collaborative effort between the Army Map Service and the Geological Survey, reveals a wilderness devoid of any established roads or trails at the time of field annotation in 1952. This absence of infrastructure underscores the region's character as a roadless expanse where the meandering river systems provided the primary means of navigation and geographic orientation.