1895 Mining Claims in Leadville, Co

Placer and lode mining claims in the Leadville, Co Mining District. (Engineering and Mining Journal, Vol, LX, pp. 78).

I scanned this map because I think it is a great representation of an historical mining landscape.   Both extremely convoluted and strikingly organized, with geologic and political boundaries meshing together in a geometric cacophony.  Maps like these illuminate how interpreting the historical mining landscape can be especially challenging, due to the scale of extraction and the overlapping of ownership from one claim to the next.   This historical complexity often obfuscates some of the envirotechnical activity that created the landscapes we see today, as well as makes tracking the environmental legacies within these landscapes troublesome.