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1939 Map of Rangeley

Name: 1939 Topographic Map of Rangeley
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1939
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1939

About this map

Rangeley serves as the hub of this 1930s high-country landscape, where the town and nearby Mingo Springs overlook the expansive waters of Rangeley Lake. The map reveals a transition in mountain transport, documenting several rail lines marked as Abandoned alongside the winding path of the Appalachian Trail as it traverses major summits like Saddleback Mtn and Bemis Mtn.

Remote education and early recreation are visible at sites like the Lakeside Sch and the various islands and bogs, including the South Bog Islands. The rugged interior is defined by a dense network of water bodies, from Saddleback Lake in the north to Smalls Falls in the east. This survey, compiled in part from Air Corps aerial photography, captures the Franklin and Oxford County borderlands during an era of significant change for the northern Maine woods.