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1953 Map of Uncas

Name: 1953 Topographic Map of Uncas
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1976
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1976

About this map

Port Discovery serves as the northern anchor for this landscape, where the waters of the bay meet the coastal settlements of Maynard and Uncas. The 1953 topography, updated with 1973 photorevisions, reveals a transition from these shoreline communities into the dense timberlands of the Olympic National Forest. The Olympic Highway traces the eastern edge of the quadrangle, connecting the local centers near Uncas Sch to the southern freshwater chain of Crocker Lake and Leland Lake.

Logging history is etched into the terrain through features like Big Skidder Hill and Little Skidder Hill, while the interior remains defined by a network of drainage systems including Salmon Creek, Snow Creek, and Andrews Creek. A Jeep Trail provides one of the few penetrations into the elevated western slopes near Cedar Flat, illustrating the balance between mid-century transportation development and the preserved wilderness areas at the edge of the Clallam and Jefferson county line.