1951 Map of Argo Butte

About this map

The Wind River Indian Reservation landscape is defined by the heavy footprint of mid-century industrial and agricultural engineering. The Wind River serves as the central artery for this development, feeding the Riverton Reclamation Project via the Diversion Dam and an extensive network of waterways like the Wyoming Canal and Deshaw Ditch. This complex irrigation infrastructure converted the arid flats into productive land, a process further evidenced by the several labeled irrigation ditches, some already marked as Ditch (Aband) by the time of the 1970s revisions.