1954 Map of Bismarck

About this map

The Missouri River corridor serves as the central artery for this mid-century portrait of central North Dakota, where the capital city of Bismarck and neighboring Mandan anchor a landscape defined by prairie buttes and expansive river valley bottomlands. This survey illustrates the region just after the mid-1950s, showing the early stages of the Oahe Reservoir as it began to transform the river valley south toward the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.