1960 Map of Chicken Spring

About this map

Chicken Spring and its surrounding high plains in Sweetwater County appear here in a landscape defined by intermittent water sources and ranching infrastructure. Surveyed as part of the Department of the Interior program for the development of the Missouri River Basin, this map documents a sparsely populated region where survival depends on localized landmarks like Hadsell Corral and North Well. The terrain is drained by seasonal watercourses including Spring Creek and Stewart Creek, which carve subtle paths through the township lines. This 1960 field check reveals the essential isolation of the Wyoming interior, where a named spring or a cattle corral serves as a primary geographic anchor for land management and navigation.