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1962 Map of Bowmans Corners

Name: 1962 Topographic Map of Bowmans Corners
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1965
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1965

About this map

Milford Colony stands as a primary focal point in this Lewis and Clark County landscape, surveyed in the early 1960s. The settlement pattern is defined by the intersection of rural routes and the intricate drainage of the Rocky Mountain Front. The map documents a complex network of waterways, including Hogan Creek, Bean Creek, and Flat Creek, which carve through the terrain and dictate the placement of local infrastructure like Bean Creek Road.

Further south, the junction at Bowmans Corners serves as a navigational landmark amidst a topography marked by Black Rock Creek and Auchard Creek. The presence of a Gravel Pit and numerous elevation benchmarks, such as BM 4222 and BM 4304, illustrates the intensive surveying work required to map this high-plains environment. This record preserves the precise location of communal settlements and ranching-era road networks before later twentieth-century developments altered the local character.