1995 Map of Onion Butte

About this map

Onion Butte and Onion Summit dominate the north-central topography of this mid-1990s Forest Service revision in Tehama County. The landscape is defined by the sharp descent of drainages like Mill Creek and Deer Creek, the latter featuring both Deer Creek Falls and the Lower Deer Creek Falls. This area is largely managed as the State Game Refuge within the Lassen National Forest, showing a network of resource-management infrastructure including a Cinder Pit, the Helispot LNF, and a Lookout atop Colby Mountain. The mapping reveals a complex hydrology of named forks and springs, such as Big Smoky Creek and Panther Creek, which carve through the high-elevation terrain near the Potato Patch. This document serves as a record of forest management and natural water resources in the Southern Cascades before late-century changes.