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1914 Map of Saddleback Hills

Name: 1914 Topographic Map of Saddleback Hills
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1958
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1958

About this map

The settlement of Carbon and the Union Pacific corridor define this high-desert landscape in Carbon County, where the railroad follows the natural break between Saddleback Hills and Como Ridge. Surveyed in the early twentieth century, the map reveals a network of freight and travel routes including the Hanna and Medicine Bow Road and the Elk Mountain and Medicine Bow Road.

Water sources are vital landmarks in this arid terrain, with numerous named springs such as Missouri John Spring, Jacks Spring, and Sixmile Spring providing essential stopovers. The drainage systems of the Medicine Bow River and Little Medicine Bow River converge in the northeast, while the southern reaches are marked by the seasonal flows of Sand Creek and Third Sand Creek. Small railroad-adjacent locales like Ramsey appear alongside significant basin features like Como Lake and Allen Lake, illustrating the early infrastructure of Wyoming’s coal and rail era.