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1955 Map of Cannonball Cut

Name: 1955 Topographic Map of Cannonball Cut
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1982
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1982

About this map

Rock Creek (Aband) sits as a silent remnant of earlier settlement along the winding banks of Rock Creek in Albany County. The landscape is marked by the passage of frontier travel and early industry, defined by the path of the Old Fort Fetterman Road and the remnants of an Old Railroad Grade. A small Cem near the abandoned townsite offers a point of interest for genealogists tracing early families in this part of Wyoming.

Resource extraction is evident through the presence of Bentonite Pits and a Well located near the South Fork of Meiser Creek. Water management, critical for both ranching and the railroad, is represented by the Taylor Ditch, Johnston Ditch, and the clustered Rock Creek Lakes. To the southeast, the terrain rises toward Chalk Bluff, while the namesake Cannonball Cut anchors the southern portion of the survey.