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2000 Map of Keystone

Name: 2000 Topographic Map of Keystone
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2002
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2002

About this map

Table Mountain and the Stanislaus River dominate the northern landscape of this Tuolumne County terrain, where the Tulloch Dam harnesses the river's flow near the boundary with Calaveras County. The map documents a rugged interior cross-cut by the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct, a critical infrastructure link running east-to-west below Rushing Mtn.

Settlement patterns are sparse and agriculturally focused, centered on the historic Keystone and family-held lands like Burgeson Ranch and Kistler Ranch. The presence of a Calif Div Forestry post and the fire lookout at Rushing Mtn (Big Hill) suggests the region's historical vulnerability to wildland fire. The southern reaches are defined by a complex drainage network including Dry Creek and Wildcat Creek, with industrial traces such as a Claypit marking the local extraction economy.