Ever wanted to tour a wind farm, a giant dam or an oil and gas field? This map will help. Click on the icon of the industrial site nearest you for a bit about the site and tours, if offered, along with a link to more information.

Purple = oil & gas; Aqua = dams & irrigation projects; Yellow = Superfund or related projects; Green = nuclear weapons-related facilities; Blue = active mine sites; Sun = renewable energy; Pink = other.

If you’d like to better understand what exactly you are looking at while visiting these places, read Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape, by Brian Hayes. It’s a fun read, and explains everything from the electrical grid to the equipment at natural gas processing plants.

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The Atlas of the Industrial West

by Jonathan Thompson, High Country News
June 25, 2012

<h1>The Atlas of the Industrial West</h1> <p class="byline">by Jonathan Thompson, High Country News <br />June 25, 2012</p> </p> <p>Ever wanted to tour a wind farm, a giant dam or an oil and gas field? This map will help. Click on the icon of the industrial site nearest you for a bit about the site and tours, if offered, along with a link to more information.</p> <p>Purple = oil &amp; gas; Aqua = dams &amp; irrigation projects; Yellow = Superfund or related projects; Green = nuclear weapons-related facilities; Blue = active mine sites; Sun = renewable energy; Pink = other.</p> <p>If you’d like to better understand what exactly you are looking at while visiting these places, read <a class="external-link" href="http://www.amazon.com/Infrastructure-Field-Guide-Industrial-Landscape/dp/0393329593/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1340557325&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=infrastructure+a+field+guide+to+the+industrial+landscapehttp://"><em>Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape</em></a>, by Brian Hayes. It’s a fun read, and explains everything from the electrical grid to the equipment at natural gas processing plants.</p> <p>View <a style="text-align: left" href="https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&amp;msid=208560755443175947364.0004c08843eacae2a346e&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;ll=40.010787,-113.730469&amp;spn=16.811039,39.506836&amp;z=5&amp;source=embed">Industrial Landscapes of the West</a> in a larger map</p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=186991">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">The Atlas of the Industrial West</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/44-11/the-atlas-of-the-industrial-west/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=115974&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/44-11/the-atlas-of-the-industrial-west/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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