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2014 Map of Coal Mine Creek East

Name: 2014 Topographic Map of Coal Mine Creek East
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2014
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2014

About this map

Round Butte stands as a prominent landmark in this northern section of Valley County, where the high plains of Montana meet the Canadian border. The 2014 survey documents a landscape defined by the drainage patterns of Coal Mine Cr and the headwaters of the N Fork South Creek. These watercourses have carved distinct landforms such as Fox Coulee and Slaughter Coulee into the surrounding plateau.

Evidence of the region's mining and ranching history is preserved in the local nomenclature, with Coal Mine Hill rising near the eastern boundary and the Opheim Hills extending across the southern reaches. A network of rural routes, including Old Theony Rd and Coalmine Rd, provides the primary infrastructure for this remote agricultural and resource-rich territory, tracing the path of earlier 20th-century settlement and industry in the Big Sky Country.