1982 Map of Jacks Place

About this map

The remote volcanic landscape of Lake County is defined by the expansive East Lava Field and the adjacent Four Craters Lava Field, creating a complex geological record of past eruptions. In the early 1980s, the isolated settlement of Jacks Place stood as a lone human waypoint in an environment dominated by cinder cones and lava flows. Topographic features such as Lava Mountain and Twin Buttes rise above the jagged terrain, while subsurface exploration is noted by the Ice Cave Pothole and Ice Cave. Water management is the primary sign of land use here, with various basins and wells such as Coyote Hole Reservoir, Sixteen Well, and Seventeen Well scattered across the sagebrush and lava to support livestock in an otherwise arid region.