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1974 Map of Brush Mountain

Name: 1974 Topographic Map of Brush Mountain
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1989
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1989

About this map

Brush Mountain stands as a prominent topographical landmark along the high plains where the borders of Montana and North Dakota meet. Surveyed in the mid-1970s with updates into the 1980s, this area reflects a remote landscape of prairie drainage and emergent energy exploration. Local community life is anchored by the Scandia Ch and an adjacent Cem, serving the surrounding rural townships of Climax and Strandahl.

The presence of an Oil Well and a Drill Hole near the mountain peak indicates the region's mid-century industrial interests, while names like Dead Horse Spring and the East Fork of Brush Mountain Creek hint at the earlier ranching history. To the southeast, the terrain softens into the wetlands of Sweet Slough and Christianson Slough, illustrating the varied hydrological character of the Great Plains near the state line.