2018 Map of Jake Creek Mountain

In the northern reaches, the Snowstorm Mountains rise toward the quadrangle boundary, their drainages feeding into systems like Big Spring and Secret Cr. The township and range lines of T39N and T38N indicate the systematic Bureau of Land Management oversight of this open range. Researchers can trace the drainage patterns from Indian Springs in the south to the northern bluffs, revealing how the landscape's hydrology dictated movement and land use throughout the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.