Historic Maps

This page provides links to historic maps of the area. For modern maps, see http://blackrockdesert.org/maps/.

• 1842 John C. Fremont
  • Map Of An Exploring Expedition To The Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, Oregon & North California In The Years 1843-44. By Brevet Capt. J. C. Fremont Of The Corps Of Topographical Engineers Under the orders of Col. J.J. Abert, Chief Of The Topographical Bureau. Lith. by E. Weber & Co. Baltimore, Md. (David Rumsey), shows Gerlach "Great Boiling" Springs
  • UC Berkeley has a copy Map 100.W4 D no.1
• 1855 Survey
  • Humboldt Mountains to the Mud Lakes (1855)
  • From the valley of the Mud Lakes to the Pacific Ocean
  • Valley of the Mud Lakes showing eighty two miles of the projected rail road line... (David Rumsey)
• 1863 DeGroot's map of Nevada (David Rumsey)
• 1883 Lake Lahontan by Israel C. Russell (UNR)
• Granite Range (1894, Rp. 1923) (UNR)
• 1895 U.S. Atlas
  • 1895 U.S. Atlas - Washoe County
  • 1895 U.S. Atlas - Humboldt County
• 1896 Post Route Map
• 1918 Map of Lake Lahontan, showing water area and boundary of hydrographic basin from "Fishes of the Lahontan System of Nevada and Northeastern California" map is by Israel C. Russell, probably a duplicate of the 1883 version?(University of Washington)
• Gerlach (1964, Rp. 1977) (UNR)

Gallery

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  1895 U.S. Atlas - Washoe County

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  1895 U.S. Atlas - Humboldt County

See Also

• Maps - Links to modern maps.

External Links

• Friends of the Black Rock/High Rock Map page
• UNR Delamare Historic Topos