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1972 Map of Rough Mountain NE

Name: 1972 Topographic Map of Rough Mountain NE
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1975
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1975

About this map

Castle Creek and Birch Creek carve through this Owyhee County landscape, shaping a terrain defined by drainage patterns and resource extraction. Evidence of early to mid-20th-century mineral exploration is scattered throughout the region, marked by a Mine, Tailings, and several Prospect sites. A Jeep Trail provides the primary means of navigation through the hills, connecting these remote workings to broader networks.

The presence of a Corral and a Gravel Pit indicates a landscape shared between ranching and local materials production. Cloudburst Wash sits in the eastern portion of the map, illustrating the arid, intermittent nature of the waterways in this part of Idaho during the early 1970s. This survey, based on 1971 aerial photography, captures the specific industrial and agricultural footprint of the era before modern shifts in land use.