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1955 Map of Mt. Mc Loughlin

Name: 1955 Topographic Map of Mt. Mc Loughlin
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1974
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1974

About this map

Mt. McLoughlin dominates this high-altitude landscape in the southern Cascades during the mid-1950s. The topography is defined by complex volcanic features, including extensive Lava flows stretching toward Brown Mtn and the prominent volcanic peaks of North Squaw Tip and South Squaw Tip. Water management and recreation appear throughout the forest, centered on Willow Lake and Fish Lake, both supporting seasonal activity at the Willow Creek Resort and Fish Lake Resort.

Logistics and early forest management are visible through a network of guard stations and forest camps, such as the Big Elk Guard Station and the McCallister Soda Spring Forest Camp. The map preserves several vanished locales and pioneer-era points of interest, including the Deadwood settlement site and the curiously named Dead Indian Soda Springs. High-country meadows like Grizzly Prairie and Short Creek Prairie break up the timbered ridges, while the headwaters of Little Butte Creek drain the western slopes toward the Rogue River valley.