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2022 Map of Rock Spring Gulch

Name: 2022 Topographic Map of Rock Spring Gulch
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2022
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2022

About this map

Elk Head Reservoir dominates the western landscape of this Routt and Moffat County borderlands region, where the water is fed by the southward-flowing Elkhead Creek. The terrain is defined by a dense network of high-desert drainages and gulches, including Rock Spring Gulch and Jimmy Dunn Gulch, which carve through the high plateaus toward the Yampa River in the south. These names often reflect early ranching families and the 19th-century homesteading era.

Transportation throughout the quadrangle relies on a grid of county roads and local lanes, such as Homesteader Ln and McGuire Ln, which navigate the varying elevations. The presence of the Mountain View Trl near the reservoir suggests a transition toward recreational land use in the 21st century. While the landscape remains largely rural, the naming of features like Coal Bank Gulch hints at the region's underlying geological resources and historical extraction activities.