1959 Map of Rockvale

About this map

Rockvale and Coalcreek sit at the northern edge of this Fremont County landscape, marking a transition from the structured Williamsburg City Boundary into the complex mining topography of the southern Front Range foothills. The terrain is deeply defined by the coal economy of the mid-twentieth century, evidenced by a dense concentration of workings such as the Coal Creek No 2 Mine and the Black Diamond Mine. Industrial traces like an Old Railroad Grade and the A T & S F RR snake through the canyons of Oak Creek and Alkali Creek, illustrating how resource extraction dictated the local infrastructure.