2020 Map of Nine Canyon

About this map

The Horse Heaven Hills define the dramatic verticality of this Benton County landscape, where deep drainage systems like Nine Canyon and Fourmile Canyon carve through the basalt plateaus. At this point in the early twenty-first century, the land remains largely agricultural and rural, divided by a grid of family-named roads including S Upper Blair Rd and Les Blair Rd. A notable piece of irrigation infrastructure, the Division Four Canal, cuts across the northern reaches near a prominent landform known simply as The Butte. The map illustrates the transition from the high ridges down through Switzler Canyon, showing how modern access roads like S Nine Canyon Rd and Meals Rd negotiate the difficult terrain between the higher elevations and the flatter agricultural basins below.