2017 Map of West of Miners Basin

About this map

Newfoundland Evaporation Basin dominates the lower central portion of this area in the western salt flats of Box Elder County. This map documents a largely open and specialized landscape defined by the Public Land Survey System grids of t6n r16w, t6n r15w, t5n r16w, and t5n r15w. The absence of roads or permanent structures reflects the industrial and environmental character of this region, where land use is centered on evaporation processes rather than traditional settlement. For the researcher, this sheet provides the specific legal boundaries and hydrographic markers of this isolated portion of the Great Salt Lake desert as it was mapped in the early twenty-first century.