2018 Map of West of Gold Mountain

About this map

The Gold Mountain Range and the Amargosa Range converge in this high-elevation corner of the eastern California desert. This 2018 survey documents a remote landscape dominated by the protected expanses of Death Valley National Park. The terrain shifts from the northern reaches of the Mojave Desert into the iconic sink of Death Valley itself, with the diagonal boundary between Nevada and California cutting through the topographic relief. To the north, the drainage of Oriental Wash provides a rare point of named hydrology in an otherwise arid region defined by sharp ridgelines and vast alluvial slopes. The map traces the jurisdictional intersection of Esmeralda and Inyo Counties, illustrating how state and county lines were historically surveyed across this formidable mountain environment.