1981 Map of Bracket Butte SE

About this map

O'Fallon Creek flows northward through this portion of Fallon County, serving as the primary drainage for a landscape defined by seasonal watercourses and prairie springs. Surveyed in the mid-1970s, the terrain shows a pattern of land use centered on water access, with features like Flowing Well and various unnamed wells and Springs punctuating the drainage basins of Scroggin Creek and Hay Creek. The topography is marked by the branching systems of Miles City Creek and Back Creek, which illustrate the complex erosional patterns of the Montana plains. Evidence of local industry is sparse but present, notably at a Gravel Pit located near the northern edge of the sheet. The map captures the area just before the turn of the 1980s, documenting a network of unimproved roads and fence lines that define the rural ranching boundaries of the era.