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1968 Map of Rodeo Creek NE

Name: 1968 Topographic Map of Rodeo Creek NE
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1971
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1971

About this map

Industrial gold mining operations and rugged high-desert topography characterize this 1968 survey of the borderlands between Elko and Eureka counties. The Carlin Mine serves as a major focal point, surrounded by heavy infrastructure including a Tailings Pond, a complex Aqueduct system, and a prominent Mine Dump. This landscape demonstrates the massive scale of late-20th-century open-pit mining at the height of the Nevada gold boom, contrasting sharply with the older, smaller-scale workings like the Blue Star Mine and Big Six Mine to the north.

Away from the industrial centers, the map reveals a remote ranching and grazing environment marked by numerous Spring sites and isolated Corral locations. The terrain rises from the Little Boulder Basin into the jagged peaks of the Tuscarora Mountains, where elevations reach over 6,800 feet at Popovich Hill. Local history is captured in small details such as a lonely Ruin near Sheep Creek Canyon, while the southern slopes of Richmond Mountain are crisscrossed by a network of unimproved roads and a Jeep Trail.