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1954 Map of Lodore School

Name: 1954 Topographic Map of Lodore School
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1967
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1967

About this map

Browns Park unfolds along the winding corridor of the Green River in this 1954 field-checked survey of Moffat County. The landscape is characterized by its expansive river bottoms, including Flynn Bottom, Warren Bottom, and J S Hoy Bottom, which supported a series of isolated homesteads and ranching operations. The presence of the Lodore Sch and the Two Bar Ranch indicates a settled but sparse rural community tied to the river's path.

Several homestead sites are already marked as defunct by the mid-1950s, such as Spitzie Place (Aband) and Buffham Place (Aband), suggesting the shifting nature of livestock grazing and habitation in this high-altitude terrain. The topography rises sharply from the river valley toward the massive Diamond Mountain and features like Matt Gulch, while a network of irrigation via Ditch lines and natural springs like Hoy Spring highlight the essential struggle for water management in the arid Colorado interior.