{"product_id":"map-of-kanab-utah-by-usgs-1985-kanab-creek-zion-national-park-coral-pink-sand-dunes","title":"Map of Kanab, Utah by USGS, 1985 – Kanab Creek, Zion National Park \u0026 Coral Pink Sand Dunes","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1985 by the U.S. Geological Survey, “Kanab” presents a precise 1:24,000 topographical portrait of one of southern Utah’s most evocative crossroads. Marked as provisional, the map belongs to the USGS tradition of field-informed, engineering-grade cartography, where contour, drainage, road, and settlement data are assembled into a remarkably legible account of place. Kanab appears not merely as a populated town, but as a settlement embedded within a dramatic landscape of dry washes, creek corridors, ridges, and desert uplands. The map captures a moment in the town’s late twentieth-century geography, before later patterns of growth, tourism, conservation, and land management further reshaped the region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe town of Kanab occupies a storied position near the Utah-Arizona border, long serving as a gateway between the Colorado Plateau’s iconic parks, canyons, and desert basins. On this map, its streets and surrounding routes are set against the topographic framework of Kanab Creek and nearby drainages, revealing how settlement follows the practical logic of water, gradient, and passable terrain. Roads and trails thread outward from the town toward surrounding hills and open country, recording the relationship between local habitation and the larger regional landscape. The result is a map that balances civic detail with the austere grandeur of the canyon country around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a USGS topographical map, “Kanab” is defined by its disciplined visual language: contour lines articulate every rise, bench, ridge, and hollow, while color gradations and standardized symbols distinguish landforms, watercourses, roads, and built features. This style gives the landscape a sculptural quality, allowing the viewer to read elevation as clearly as location. Unnamed hills and ridges are especially important here, for they form the quiet architecture of the map, shaping movement across the terrain even when they lack celebrated names. The careful placement of information reflects the USGS commitment to accuracy, utility, and clarity, qualities that made such maps indispensable to planners, geologists, land managers, and explorers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wider geography evoked by the map places Kanab within a remarkable constellation of natural landmarks, including the Paria River country, Kanab Creek, Zion National Park, Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, and the region now associated with Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. These places speak to the geological complexity of southern Utah, where sandstone cliffs, dune fields, canyon systems, and high desert plateaus meet in close succession. The map’s topographic character helps explain why this region has drawn surveyors, ranchers, filmmakers, conservationists, and travelers alike. It is a landscape of thresholds: between basin and canyon, settlement and wilderness, mapped certainty and immense open space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eViewed historically, the 1985 “Kanab” map records more than coordinates and contours; it preserves a geographic snapshot of a community and its setting at a particular moment. Land use, residential development, road networks, recreational access, and ecological conditions have all continued to evolve, especially as southern Utah became increasingly central to outdoor tourism and conservation debates. The provisional designation adds a further note of cartographic immediacy, suggesting a working document shaped by the best available data of its time. For collectors, historians, and admirers of the American West, this map offers an elegant, information-rich window onto Kanab’s terrain, its regional connections, and the enduring drama of the Colorado Plateau.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCities, towns and places on this map\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKanab\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eParia River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKanab Creek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eZion National Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCoral Pink Sand Dunes State Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMount Carmel Junction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrand Staircase-Escalante National Monument\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeveral unnamed hills and ridges\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMultiple roads and trails throughout the area\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHistorical context \u0026amp; cartographic details\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreated and imprinted in 1985\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTopographical map at a scale of 1:24,000\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarked as provisional\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIllustrates Kanab, a notable populated place in Utah\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShows Kanab and its surrounding landscapes, including residential areas and natural formations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUses distinct color gradients to represent elevations and landforms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes contour lines indicating relief and topographical changes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvides a detailed topographical representation of elevation changes in and around Kanab\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReflects the geographical landscape of Kanab in 1985\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLater changes in land use, urban development, and ecological conditions may have occurred since publication\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCartographic style emphasizes carefully placed elevation and landmark information, typical of USGS geographical accuracy and detail\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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