1953 Map of Uncas

About this map

Port Discovery and its southern inlet, Discovery June, anchor this mid-century topographic record of the eastern Olympic Peninsula. The settlement of Uncas and the Uncas Sch sit at the northern edge of a corridor defined by the Olympic P & P RR and the Olympic Highway. The landscape transitions from the coastal mudflats near Maynard into the steep, timbered ridges of the Olympic National Forest, where features like Big Skidder Hill and Little Skidder Hill hint at the area's logging history. Moving south, the map details a chain of freshwater bodies including Crocker Lake and Leland Lake near the community of Leland. This survey provides a precise view of the rural infrastructure during the early 1950s, showing the Snow Creek Guard Sta and a network of creeks like Salmon Creek and Andrews Creek feeding toward the Little Quilcene River.