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1988 Map of Indian Pond North

Name: 1988 Topographic Map of Indian Pond North
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1988
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1988

About this map

Indian Pond and the Kennebec River dominate this portion of the Maine north woods, illustrating a landscape defined by industrial forestry and hydroelectric geography in the late 1980s. The map highlights the strategic intersection at Somerset Junction, where rail lines historically converged near the West Outlet of Brassua Lake. This region is divided into sprawling townships with colonial-era descriptors, including Sandwich Academy, Sapling, and Indian Stream.

The terrain rises toward Big Squaw Mountain in the southeast and the prominent Misery Ridge to the west. Small settlements and staging points like Tarratine and Coburn appear alongside evidence of local extraction at several Sand & Gravel Pits. Waterways such as Misery Stream and Churchill Stream feed into the larger pond system, while the East Outlet Kennebec River flows toward the Somerset and Piscataquis county line.