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2002 Map of Upper Valley

Name: 2002 Topographic Map of Upper Valley
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2005
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2005

About this map

The Dixie National Forest and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument dominate this southern Utah landscape, where the Escalante Mountains descend into the high-desert drainages of the Upper Valley. The All American Road Highway 12 serves as the primary artery through this complex terrain, passing near benchmarked elevations like BM 6883 and BM 7010. The map reveals a land defined by its hydrology, from the Henrieville Creek headwaters in the south to Yankee Meadow Spring and Allen Creek in the north.

Evidence of resource use and backcountry navigation is scattered throughout the territory, including the Western Plateau Trail and numerous 4WD tracks. Surveyors marked several distinct landforms such as Liston Flat and the deep incisions of Heaps Canyon and Water Canyon. The inclusion of various protracted blocks (PB) indicates the challenges of surveying this varied geography during the mid-20th century, before more modern revisions were integrated.