1922 Map of Warm Creek

About this map

The Colorado River winds through the deep canyons of southern Utah in this reconnaissance study led by Raymond C. Moore and A. T. Fowler. This remote landscape, surveyed just after the first world war, captures the rugged transition between Kane and San Juan counties at the Utah-Arizona Boundary Line. Significant landmarks of early travel and habitation are visible, most notably the Crossing of the Fathers, an essential historic river passage, and the isolated Warm Creek Cabin. The map details the intricate drainage systems of Cottonwood Canyon and Last Chance Creek before these areas were dramatically altered by later twentieth-century water management projects. It remains a primary record of the topography and sparse human footprint in the Glen Canyon region during the early 1920s.