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1953 Map of Nulato A-4

Name: 1953 Topographic Map of Nulato A-4
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1967
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1967

About this map

The Kaiyuh Mountains dominate this 1953 interior landscape, where the Khotol River and its numerous tributaries carve through the upland terrain. This Bureau of Land Management study reveals an era of unsurveyed and unmarked land lines, where the geographic orientation relied entirely on natural watercourses and prominent peaks like Khotol Mountain. A complex network of drainage basins, including Colorado Creek, California Creek, and Minnesota Creek, flows through the central valleys toward the lower marshlands.

In the southern reaches of the quadrangle, the Little Mud River winds through an extensive system of swamps and meanders, illustrating the difficult passage through the Alaskan interior before modern infrastructure. The map preserves a moment when the region remained largely roadless, defined by remote creeks such as Yukon Creek and Illinois Creek that served as the primary landmarks for surveyors and explorers.