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2012 Map of South Barrel Spring

Name: 2012 Topographic Map of South Barrel Spring
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2012
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2012

About this map

South Barrel Spring and Stratton Spring anchor this high-desert landscape in Sweetwater County, where the management of scarce water resources defines the human footprint. The map documents an extensive network of drainage and catchment features, including the Mexican Flats Reservoir Number 1 and the Dad Bell Reservoir. This infrastructure, combined with the presence of several detention structures like Detention Dam 1594 Number 3, reveals a region deeply shaped by the necessities of arid-land ranching and watershed control.

Remote access is provided by a thin web of unpaved tracks, notably Windmill Draw Rd and Standard Rd, which trace the high ground between ephemeral drainages such as Red Wash and E Br Willow Cr. These routes serve as the primary lifelines through an area characterized more by its geological contours and hydraulic engineering than by permanent settlements, reflecting the late 20th and early 21st-century utilization of the Wyoming interior.