1910 Map of Rock Springs

About this map

Rock Springs serves as the industrial and transportation anchor for this high desert landscape, which was surveyed in 1908. The town sits at the confluence of Killpecker Creek and Bitter Creek, with the heavy infrastructure of the Union Pacific railroad corridor defining the valley's development. Small coal-mining communities and railroad stops like Gunn, Blairtown, and Baxter are clustered near the tracks, while the wider Eden Valley opens to the north. This map captures the region at a time when local transport relied on routes like Superior Road and Park Road, connecting isolated ranching and mining interests across Sweetwater County. For researchers, the presence of a Cem and water sources like Sixmile Spring provides critical detail for tracing early twentieth-century Wyoming frontier life and the expansion of the transcontinental rail network.