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1937 Map of Pomeroy

Name: 1937 Topographic Map of Pomeroy
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1937
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1937

About this map

Pomeroy and Dayton anchor this late 1930s survey, showing the transition from agricultural valley floor to the dense ridges of the Umatilla National Forest. The map documents a rural landscape defined by small neighborhood schoolhouses, including Mt Vernon Sch, Highland Sch, and Green Valley Sch, which served families across the dissected plateaus.

Remote outposts like Tucannon Guard Sta and Godman Springs Guard Sta represent the early administrative presence in the mountains. The northern half of the sheet reveals a complex network of creeks and ridges, such as Pataha Flat and Skyhawk Ridge, that dictated the placement of early settlements like Pataha City and the neighboring Pataha Cem. This document preserves the exact placement of these small-scale community hubs before later 20th-century consolidation changed the rural social geography of Garfield and Columbia Counties.