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2014 Map of The Narrows

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

USGS Topo · Published 2014

About this map

The high desert terrain of Elko County is defined by the Adobe Range as it transitions toward the drainage of the N Fork Humboldt River. Water sources are the critical anchor for human activity and livestock in this arid environment, marked by a network of seasonal flows and permanent springs including McKnight Springs, Wildcat Spring, and Horse Spring. The namesake geographic feature, The Narrows, serves as a natural bottleneck for Big Cr before it meets the broader Horse Basin to the west.

Transportation is limited to a few arterial routes such as Twin River Rancho Rd, illustrating the persistence of large-scale ranching and open-range land use in the early twenty-first century. This landscape, carved by Twin Springs Cr and defined by deep incisions like Long Canyon, remains remarkably consistent with the historical geography of northeastern Nevada, where the location of Twin Springs dictated the movement of cattle and commerce through the high country.