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2023 Map of Murphy

Name: 2023 Topographic Map of Murphy
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2023
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2023

About this map

The Applegate River carves through this Josephine County landscape, anchoring a valley of agricultural reservoirs and rural settlements. In the northern reaches, the community of Murphy sits near the Murphy Ditch, a testament to the region's managed water systems used for local irrigation. To the northwest, the settlement of New Hope is surrounded by a network of creeks like Stringer Creek and Skunk Creek, while Cherry Flat marks a pocket of level ground further south.

The terrain is defined by dramatic elevation changes, from the heights of Pennington Butte and Pennington Mtn to the narrow drainage of Schoolhouse Gulch. Smaller water bodies like Reinhardt Reservoir and Tobiason Reservoir are scattered across the foothills, illustrating how early 21st-century land use continues to rely on captured runoff. To the southeast, the landscape transitions into the drainage of Williams Creek and the distinctive pass known simply as Water Gap.