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1943 Map of Yellow Pine

Name: 1943 Topographic Map of Yellow Pine
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1943
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1943

About this map

The Idaho National Forest landscape shown here, surveyed in the mid-1930s, reveals a remote mountain territory defined by its mineral wealth and isolated settlements. The village of Yellow Pine serves as the western gateway, while the mining outpost of Stibnite anchors the interior. This era was critical for strategic mineral extraction, as evidenced by the Antimony Mine and Cinnabar Mines near Monumental Summit.

Logistics in this road-sparse terrain relied on small airstrips like the Oberbilling Airport and Fox Farm Landing Field. These remote landing sites, alongside primitive camps such as Monday Camp, illustrate the physical challenges of maintaining forest service operations and mining works. Genealogists and historians will find interest in localized family-named sites including the Abstein Place, Bryant Ranch, and Hennessey Meadow, which mark the small pockets of human habitation within the high ridges of Chief A L Ridge and Meadow Ridge.