2013 Map of Russell

About this map

Russell serves as the central hub of this Costilla County landscape, situated along the corridor of Us-160. The geography is defined by a dense network of gulches and canyons that drain into the Sangre de Cristo Cr, including Flume Gulch, Spanish Gulch, and Kennedy Gulch. These drainages separate high points such as Lone Rock Hill and the prominent Buck Mountain. To the south, a grid of modern rural residential roads like Wagon Mesa Loop and Forbes Park Rd indicates late 20th-century subdivision patterns imposed upon the drainage basins of Wagon Cr and Coyote Canyon. The map reveals the transition from wilder terrain in the north, where Middle Fork Placer Cr and S Fork Placer Cr descend from the heights, to the organized land management seen in the southern developments near the border of the quadrangle.