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2014 Map of Silver Springs South

Name: 2014 Topographic Map of Silver Springs South
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2014
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2014

About this map

Silver Springs sits at the northern edge of this high-desert landscape, where the residential grid of the town meets the open terrain of the Churchill Valley. To the east, the shoreline of the Lahontan Reservoir and the Silver Springs Beach area indicate the importance of water management and recreation in this arid region. The Carson River winds through the center of the sheet, its path mirrored by irrigation efforts such as the Buckland Ditch.

Evidence of the region's transportation history is preserved in the southern half of the map, where the Pony Express Route cuts across the desert floor near Davis Station. The geography transitions from the flat basin floor to the rising elevations of the Desert Mountains in the south. This survey captures a moment of modern residential development north of the river contrasted against a landscape still defined by historic overland trails and river-fed agriculture at the Big Bend of the Carson.