{"product_id":"map-of-cloudcroft-new-mexico-by-usgs-2004-sacramento-mountains-white-sands-national-monument","title":"Map of Cloudcroft, New Mexico by USGS, 2004 – Sacramento Mountains \u0026 White Sands National Monument","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished with a 2006 imprint from 2004 mapping, the U.S. Geological Survey’s “Cloudcroft Quadrangle” presents the high country of south-central New Mexico with the clarity and authority characteristic of the national topographic series. At a 1:24,000 scale, it brings the village of Cloudcroft and its surrounding mountain landscape into unusually intimate focus, showing roads, trails, drainage lines, relief, settlement patterns, and public lands in a unified geographic portrait. The map belongs to a long USGS tradition of precise field-based cartography, created to serve scientists, land managers, engineers, hikers, and communities alike. Here, the Sacramento Mountains are not merely named but measured, their ridges, canyons, slopes, and valleys translated into the elegant language of contours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCloudcroft itself occupies a dramatic setting, perched in the Sacramento Mountains above the desert basin to the west. The map captures the town’s relationship to Highway 82 and State Route 130, routes that thread through steep terrain and connect the mountain community to Alamogordo, Mayhill, and the wider region. Nearby features such as Trestle, Mud Springs, and Penasco evoke the layered human geography of ranching, logging, rail travel, recreation, and mountain settlement. The cartography also records a network of forest service roads and trails, reminders that this is both a lived-in landscape and a managed public forest. Each road bend and contour interval suggests the practical challenges of movement through a rugged upland world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe topographic character of the “Cloudcroft Quadrangle” is especially compelling, with dense contour lines revealing a landscape of sharp gradients, folded ridges, and deeply cut drainages. Holly Mountain and Greenhorn Mountain stand among the named high points, while Sand Canyon and Cienega Creek articulate the erosive forces that have shaped the terrain over time. The Sacramento River and its tributary systems are shown not as isolated waterways, but as part of a wider mountain hydrology feeding canyons, springs, meadows, and forested slopes. Color differentiations help distinguish land cover and terrain, lending the sheet both analytical value and visual richness. It is a map of altitude, water, and ecological transition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the map’s most evocative aspects is its position near the edge of starkly contrasting environments. To the west, White Sands National Monument is partially visible, hinting at the extraordinary gypsum dune field lying below the forested heights of the Sacramento Mountains. This juxtaposition—cool mountain forest above, brilliant desert basin below—is central to the regional identity of southern New Mexico. The Cloudcroft area has long attracted visitors seeking relief from the desert heat, while also serving as a gateway to timberlands, wildlife habitat, and high-elevation recreation. In this single quadrangle, the viewer can sense the abrupt environmental drama that defines the Tularosa Basin and its surrounding uplands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a document of the early twenty-first century, this USGS map preserves a precise moment in the evolving relationship between people and landscape. Its roads, trails, place names, boundaries, and natural features reflect conditions around 2004, before subsequent changes in infrastructure, land management, conservation practice, wildfire history, or local development may have altered the area. The U.S. Geological Survey, operating within the Department of the Interior, produced such maps as fundamental tools for understanding both natural resources and human geography. For Cloudcroft, that mission results in a richly detailed geographic record: a mountain community, its surrounding forests, its watercourses, its travel corridors, and the complex terrain that has shaped life there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCities, towns and places on this map\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCloudcroft\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHolly Mountain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhite Sands National Monument (partially visible)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSacramento Mountains\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrestle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMud Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePenasco\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHighway 82\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eState Route 130\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSacramento River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeveral contour lines indicating elevation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVarious forest service roads and trails\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCienega Creek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSand Canyon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGreenhorn Mountain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHistorical context \u0026amp; cartographic details\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMap Name: Cloudcroft Quadrangle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Produced by the U.S. Geological Survey, an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior tasked with studying and mapping natural resources and human geography.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDate of Creation: The map is dated 2004 and carries a 2006 imprint.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesign and Cartographic Style: Detailed topographical style with contour lines illustrating elevation changes and terrain.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUse of color differentiates various landforms and vegetation types.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTopographic Character: Scale of 1:24,000, allowing detailed representation of the mountainous terrain around Cloudcroft, including hills, valleys, and elevation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical Context: Represents a snapshot of the area as it existed in the early 2000s.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChanges in land use, conservation efforts, or infrastructure may have occurred since publication.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLooking for a particular place?\u003c\/strong\u003e Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, \u003ca target=\"”_blank”\" href=\"\/de\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eask our workshop to check before you order\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDetailed maps are especially rewarding at larger sizes, where names, boundaries and decorative features have more room to be appreciated. Use the close-up preview and size guide to choose the right scale for your wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). 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Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith its rich detail and strong sense of place, this map makes a considered gift for a new home, anniversary, retirement or anyone with a personal connection to the area shown. Still deciding? 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