1904 Map of Chinook

About this map

Chinook serves as the focal point of this 1902 survey, situated along the Great Northern railroad in a landscape defined by both industrial and agricultural expansion. The map documents an early twentieth-century Montana valley where complex water management systems, such as the Ft. Belknap Ditch, Matheson Ditch, and the Irrigation Co. Canal, were already being established to redirect the waters of the Milk River.