1954 Map of Marshall C-4

About this map

The Kashunuk River meanders across a landscape defined by an intricate network of countless ponds, lakes, and wetlands in this remote section of Alaska. Based on 1951 aerial photography and 1954 field annotation, the map depicts a saturated coastal plain where water dominates the geography, leaving narrow corridors of green vegetation along the river's winding path. The intricate drainage patterns and thousands of unnamed water bodies illustrated here provide a detailed record of the terrain as it appeared before mid-century. This survey, compiled by the Army Map Service and published by the Geological Survey, captures the hydrological complexity of the region during a period when land lines represented unsurveyed and unmarked locations predetermined by the Bureau of Land Management.