1914 Map of Cheyenne

About this map

Cheyenne dominates the central landscape of this survey, serving as a significant western rail hub where the Union Pacific, Colorado and Southern, and Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroads converge. Just west of the city, the extensive Fort D.A. Russell Military Reservation establishes a major military footprint near the headwaters of Crow Creek. The surrounding Laramie County terrain is defined by a network of ranching outposts and small rural nodes, including the Pole Creek Ranch and Willow Springs Ranch, alongside isolated educational landmarks like Ridley School and Pleasant Valley School. This early twentieth-century view captures the transition from a frontier outpost to a structured regional center, tracing water sources from the Roundtop Reservoir down to Lodgepole Creek while marking the precise Wyoming Colorado Boundary Line to the south.