1980 Map of Price
USGS Topo · Published 1992About this map
The Price River valley serves as the industrial and agricultural heart of this region, where the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and the Utah Railway navigate the narrow corridors between the Wasatch Plateau and the Book Cliffs. In the early 1980s, this landscape was defined by the deep-seated relationship between coal mining and settlement. A string of mountain mining towns, including Kenilworth, Standardville, Royal, and Castle Gate, flank the canyon walls north of Helper. To the east, the extensive operations of the Sunnyside Mine, Horse Canyon Mine, and Geneva Mine demonstrate the massive scale of extraction on the Tavaputs Plateau. While Price and Wellington occupy the more open valley floor, the map reveals a rugged backcountry of long ridges like Steer Ridge and Argyle Ridge, as well as the remote drainage of Nine Mile Creek winding through the Bad Land Cliffs.
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Editions of this 1980 Price Map
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