2020 Map of West of Wildcat Mountain SW

About this map

The Great Salt Lake Desert dominates this Tooele County terrain, revealing the stark and vast geography of western Utah. Surveyed as part of the 2020 national topographic series, this specific quadrangle highlights a landscape largely defined by its prehistoric lakebed heritage, where the lack of human settlements or industrial development is the primary characteristic. The map preserves the precise Public Land Survey System grid, dividing this section of the desert into numbered townships and ranges. This layout illustrates how the American West was mathematically partitioned even in areas that remain uninhabited, providing a baseline for land ownership and boundary research in a region where the environment dictated an absence of traditional infrastructure.