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2017 Map of Wildcat Lake

Name: 2017 Topographic Map of Wildcat Lake
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2017
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2017

About this map

Green Mountain and Gold Mountain dominate the central high ground of the Great Peninsula in this 2017 survey, a landscape defined by an intricate network of freshwater bodies and rising elevations west of Bremerton. This area of the Kitsap Peninsula serves as a critical watershed, with the Union River Reservoir and numerous high-elevation lakes including Wildcat Lake, Mission Lake, and Tiger Lake feeding the local drainage systems. The map illustrates the contemporary intersection of recreational aviation at Leisureland Airpark with rural residential patterns in Hite Center and Crosby.

Evidence of the area’s industrial past and conservation present is visible through features like Tin Mine Lake and Tin Mine Creek, which sit alongside the extensive Wildcat Trail system. The terrain transitions from the wetland ecology of McCaslin Marsh and the Tahuya River in the west to the more developed edges of the Bremerton periphery, capturing the balance between protected highland forests and growing peninsula communities.