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1964 Map of Mondel

Name: 1964 Topographic Map of Mondel
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1966
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1966

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The Butterfield Trail cuts through this high desert corridor, marking a legacy of mid-19th-century mail and passenger transport before more modern infrastructure arrived. By the mid-1960s, the Southern Pacific railroad and a major Pipeline followed a similar southwest-to-northeast trajectory, showing how the landscape's natural passes continued to dictate regional movement. The settlement of Mondel serves as a small waypoint along these transit lines.

Water management is the defining feature of the local topography, with a complex network of man-made catchments like Brister Tank, New Tank, and Braidfoot Tank scattered across the basin. These structures, alongside Robinson Windmill and Unks Windmill, highlight the ranching economy's reliance on intermittent runoff from Doubtful Canyon and numerous ephemeral channels such as Rustler Draw, Volcano Draw, and Sixtysix Draw.