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1939 Map of Saratoga

Name: 1939 Topographic Map of Saratoga
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1939
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1939

About this map

Saratoga serves as the northern anchor of this high-plateau landscape, where the Saratoga and Encampment Railroad traces the valley south toward the mining and ranching hubs of Riverside and Encampment. The settlement pattern follows the reliable water of the North Platte drainage, with early infrastructure like the Airport at Saratoga and remote outposts such as Hanson Place marking the transition from valley floor to the timbered heights of the Medicine Bow National Forest.

Evidence of early rural education and resource management is scattered across the terrain, from the South Spring Creek Sch to the Brush Creek Ranger Sta. The southern portion of the map climbs into the Sierra Madre and Snowy Ranges, reaching toward the Colorado border. Here, the economy shifts toward extraction and forestry, signaled by the Big Cr Mine and numerous named parks like Huston Park and Hog Park that define the high-country landscape during the late 1930s.