
The Black Rock Desert dominates the northern reaches of this landscape, its dry alkaline flats extending across a remote stretch of the Nevada interior. This map records the crossing of the Humboldt and Pershing county lines, a boundary that bisects the vast, flat terrain where water is scarce and the topography is defined by subtle elevation shifts rather than distinct peaks. The Public Land Survey System grid provides the primary framework for orientation, identifying various townships including t35n r28e and t36n r27e. This modern survey illustrates the sparse infrastructure characteristic of the high desert, where a handful of light-duty roads and jeep trails provide the only access through the basin. It is a portrait of a landscape defined by its environmental extremes and the straight-line logic of western land divisions.
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1886 · Disaster
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1893 · Disaster
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1931 · Lovelock
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1935 · Lovelock
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1954 · Vya
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1955 · Lovelock
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1958 · Vya
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1959 · Lovelock
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1962 · Vya
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1966 · King Lear Peak
USGS Topo · 1:62,500