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2020 Map of Luna Butte

Name: 2020 Topographic Map of Luna Butte
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2020
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2020

About this map

Lake Umatilla and the Columbia River anchor the southern boundary of this high-plateau landscape in Klickitat County. The terrain rises sharply from the riverbanks into the Columbia Hills, giving way to the agricultural expanse of the Klickitat Valley. This 2020 record of the region captures the modern rural infrastructure, including private aviation sites like Aerostone Ranch Airport and Hillcrest Airport, which sit among a grid of long-established ranch roads.

Water remains the primary architect of the geography here, from the northern Little Klickitat River to the intermittent drainage of Swale Cr and the namesake Luna Cr. Significant local landmarks such as Luna Butte and Harper Spring provide fixed points for genealogists and local historians tracing property lines and land use through the township and range system. The map documents a sparsely populated but active landscape of gulches, hills, and remote homestead access roads.