1975 Map of Oxbow SW

About this map

Umcolcus Lake dominates this 1970s orthophotoquad, serving as the central drainage for a dense Maine forest network. Unlike traditional topographic maps, this imagery-based survey uses rectified aerial photography from October 1975 to document the landscape’s exact texture, showing the meandering path of the East Branch Umcolcus Stream as it winds through wetlands and marshy inlets. This specific format captures the state of the timberland during the mid-1970s, revealing clearings, logging tracks, and natural water bodies like Cranberry Pond and Beaver Pond without the abstraction of contour lines. The elevation at Oak Hill and the seasonal water levels of Boody Brook are preserved exactly as they appeared to the camera, providing a rare high-fidelity record of this Penobscot County wilderness before decades of modern forest management changed the canopy patterns.