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1951 Map of Ugashik C-3

Name: 1951 Topographic Map of Ugashik C-3
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1977
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1977

About this map

Upper Ugashik Lake dominates this mid-century landscape of the Alaska Peninsula, where the waters of the upper and lower basins meet at a narrow channel. Surveyed in the early 1950s, the map reveals a vast wetland environment punctuated by the isolated heights of Blue Mountain and a secondary topographic point labeled Lone. The terrain is characterized by intricate swamp networks and countless small unnamed ponds that surround the larger bodies of Lower Ugashik Lake.

Evidence of human presence is sparse in this wilderness, represented only by a solitary Cabin situated near the lake's southern narrows. For researchers of Alaskan history, this chart documents the unsurveyed and unmarked land lines as predetermined by the Bureau of Land Management, providing a look at the region before significant modern development. The map also includes geodetic control points such as Vabm 1776 on the summit of Blue Mountain, which served as essential landmarks for the photogrammetric mapping of this complex aquatic landscape.