1954 Map of Marshall B-1

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Johnson River meanders through the eastern portion of this subarctic landscape, where the Army Map Service captured a complex drainage system via aerial photography in the early 1950s. The terrain is defined by a dense network of seasonal wetlands and small lakes that Feed into Putu Creek and Mogak Creek. These waterways form the primary geographic features of this unpopulated region in the Seward Meridian area, which remained largely unsurveyed for land ownership at the time of publication. The intricate hydrology shown here, with countless unnamed ponds and oxbows, illustrates the raw nature of the Alaskan interior before modern development or formal road infrastructure reached these reaches of the Bethel region.