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1955 Map of Rattlesnake Pass

Name: 1955 Topographic Map of Rattlesnake Pass
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1974
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1974

About this map

The Overland Trail cuts through this high-altitude landscape, following a corridor between Halleck Ridge and the massive northern slopes of Elk Mountain. By the mid-1950s, the era's infrastructure had begun to overlay the historical pioneer route, visible through a network of a Telephone Line and underground cables that parallel the old road. The Fort Halleck Memorial stands as a quiet marker of the region's military past, located near the Palm Ranch and Halleck Creek.

Water management is a central theme in this dry terrain, evidenced by the Hanna Water Supply Intake along Rattlesnake Creek as it flows out of the mountains toward Rattlesnake Pass. While the terrain is dominated by steep ridges and drainages like Mill Creek and Kenny Creek, the presence of the Mullen Ranch indicates the persistent ranching economy that defined Carbon County throughout the twentieth century.