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1965 Map of Silver City

Name: 1965 Topographic Map of Silver City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1968
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1968

About this map

Silver City and the surrounding mining districts in the Owyhee Mountains appear here during a mid-1960s survey, detailing a landscape defined by the legacies of 19th-century silver and gold rushes. The map provides precise locations for historically significant mining operations such as the Morning Star Mine, Poorman Mine, Oro Fino Mine, and Trade Dollar Mine, many concentrated around War Eagle Mtn and Florida Mtn. These labels, alongside the townsite of Dewey, represent the remnants of a once-booming industrial core.

Local history is deeply etched into the terrain through the identification of early settlement locations including Ruby City and Fairview. Genealogists will find value in the marked locations of the Pioneer Cemetery and Reynolds Cemetery. The geography transitions from the high peaks of Black Mtn and Sugarloaf down to the high desert flats of Murphy Flat and the drainage of Murphy Creek, showing the network of trails and roads like Silver City Road that connected these remote camps to the outside world.