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1985 Map of Tenabo

Name: 1985 Topographic Map of Tenabo
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1986
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1986

About this map

Mining operations dominate the slopes of the Shoshone Range in this mid-1980s look at Lander County. The landscape is defined by extensive extraction sites, from the concentration of mineshafts and tailings around Tenabo to the industrial scale of Gold Acres further south. Notable individual claims like the Little Chief Mine, Tomcat Mine, and Lovie Mine are recorded alongside substantial infrastructure including a pipeline, tailings dump, and multiple tailings ponds.

The terrain drops sharply from the heights of Bullion Mtn and Altenburg Hill toward the flat expanse of Crescent Valley in the east. Water sources in this arid environment are sparse but critical, evidenced by Tub Spring, Indian Creek, and several named drainage cuts like Gold Quartz Gulch and Triple Gulch. The map provides a technical record of the land's transition from prospecting to large-scale industrial processing.