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1962 Map of Blair Ranch

Name: 1962 Topographic Map of Blair Ranch
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1964
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1964

About this map

The Grandview Oil and Gas Field centers this 1960s survey of Liberty County, Montana, revealing an upland landscape defined by energy extraction and cattle ranching. The presence of a Pipeline and the grid of section lines across the high plains highlight the systematic development of the region's natural resources. Local community life is anchored by small landmarks such as Trinity Ch and the Eagle Creek Sch, which provided essential services to the families of the scattered ranching operations like the Blair Ranch.

Drainage patterns follow the seasonal flow of Eagle Creek and Horse Creek, carving shallow depressions like Antelope Coulee into the prairie. Transportation in this era relied on the established Oilmont Road and the historic path of the Old Whitlash Freight Road, a route that once connected these northern borderlands to larger trade hubs. The map captures a moment when the rural school and country church still stood as primary landmarks in a vast, industrializing ranching territory.