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1917 Map of Kerby

Name: 1917 Topographic Map of Kerby
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1927
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1927

About this map

Siskiyou National Forest dominates this terrain, where the early twentieth-century extractive economy is etched into the landscape of the Klamath Mountains. The survey, conducted primarily in 1915, centers on the Illinois River valley and its mining-dependent settlements. Placer and lode mining are evident throughout the southern reaches, specifically around Waldo and Takilma, where operations like the Queen of Bronze Mine and Waldo Mine once operated.

Social infrastructure is clustered along the valley floor, with small schoolhouses such as Floyd School and O'Brien School serving the scattered ranching and mining families. The map also records early twentieth-century transport routes like Wimer Road, which connected these remote interior basins. In the western reaches, the rugged drainage of the Chetco River and the high peaks of Chetco Pk represent a landscape less touched by industrial activity, punctuated only by isolated outposts like McGregor Cabin and White Cabin.