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1961 Map of Bovill

Name: 1961 Topographic Map of Bovill
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1963
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1963

About this map

Bovill serves as the central hub of this northern Idaho landscape, where the timber and rail industries converge along the Potlatch River. The town is defined by its industrial infrastructure, including Settling Tanks, Claypits, and a nearby Airstrip. The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific railroad, also labeled here as the Milwaukee Road, winds through the river valleys, connecting the settlement of Helmer to the surrounding hills.

The terrain is a complex network of ridges and high points like Abbs Knob and the Hoodoo Mts, heavily marked by extractive history at the Mizpah Mine and Silver King Mine. Numerous high-altitude clearings, such as Bronson Meadow, Erickson Meadow, and Shea Meadows, dot the St Joe National Forest, while the northern reaches of the map show the headwaters of the Palouse River and West Fork St Maries River.