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2012 Map of Mathison Peak

Name: 2012 Topographic Map of Mathison Peak
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2012
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2012

About this map

The Big River and Albion River drainage basins define this coastal California landscape, where timber history and ranching legacies remain visible through local place names. Rising to the south, Mathison Peak and the Mathison Peak Lookout stand as prominent landmarks overlooking a series of deeply etched gulches, including Manly Gulch, Peterson Gulch, and Kaisen Gulch. Small settlements and family holdings such as Caspar Orchard, Reep Ranch, and MacDonalds Ranch are connected by a network of winding roads like Little Lake Rd and Comptche Ukiah Rd.

Institutional presence in the area is marked by the Parlin Fork Conservation Camp near Whiskey Springs and the Mendocino County Airport to the southwest. The prevalence of names like Hi Chute Ridge and multiple instances of Railroad Gulch reflect the era of industrial logging and the infrastructure required to move timber from these coastal ranges toward the Pacific. Today, the map preserves the location of interior points like Melbourne and the flats along the Laguna Cr and Little N Fork Big River.