1955 Map of Big Judson

About this map

Old Northrup Ranch sits at the junction of Cooper Creek and a mountain-fed drainage system in this mid-century survey of the Laramie Basin. The landscape is defined by the critical infrastructure of high-plains water management, featuring an intricate network of irrigation channels including King Ditch No 1, King Ditch No 2, and the Homer Ditch. These man-made watercourses support livestock and agriculture in the Big Judson area, where significant storage projects like Dutton Creek Reservoir and Cavender Reservoir dominate the local topography. Utility lines, including an extensive underground telephone cable and a high-pressure pipeline, cut across the sections, illustrating the modernization of rural Wyoming as it supported the Department of the Interior’s Missouri River Basin development program.