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1901 Map of Bald Mountain

Name: 1901 Topographic Map of Bald Mountain
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1943
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1943

About this map

Bighorn National Forest dominates this turn-of-the-century topographic record, which documents the high-altitude terrain near the Wyoming Montana Boundary Line as surveyed by Frank Tweedy in 1898. The landscape is defined by the headwaters of major drainages, including the West Fork Little Bighorn River and the North Fork Tongue River, where the elevation changes create features like Little Ledge Falls.

Industrial and ranching activity is sparse but notable in this wilderness, represented by the Fortunatus Mill located near Bald Mountain and Sheldon's Ranch on the southern edge of the sheet. The mapping of Medicine Mtn and Cookstove Basin provides critical context for researchers of early Wyoming mining and ranching interests during an era when the Sheridan and Big Horn County line was being formalized through this remote territory.