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1980 Map of Rawhide

Name: 1980 Topographic Map of Rawhide
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1983
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1983

About this map

Mining heritage and vanished boomtowns characterize this survey of the desert landscape at the border of Churchill and Mineral counties. The townsite of Rawhide serves as the focal point, surrounded by a cluster of named elevations including Hooligan Hill, Grutt Hill, Balloon Hill, and Murray Hill. These peaks and the nearby National Mill represent a period of intense extraction that once drew thousands to this corner of the Nevada desert. Further north, the townsite of Regent and the Rawhide Cemetery mark the enduring traces of these early twentieth-century settlements.

The topography is dominated by the Sand Springs Range to the east and the Barnett Hills to the northwest, with the broad Rawhide Flats lying between. Evidence of former transit is visible via the Old Railroad Grade that cuts across the terrain toward the Walker River Indian Reservation Boundary. From the heights of Buckskin Mtn to the depths of the flats, the map documents a landscape where industrial ruins and burial grounds are the primary markers of past human activity.