2011 Map of Deer Creek Church

About this map

Deer Creek Church and the adjacent West Church Cemetery serve as the primary landmarks in this sparsely populated portion of Dawson County. The landscape is defined by the branching drainage systems of the Middle Fork Deer Creek, South Fork Deer Creek, and Spring Creek, which carve across the eastern Montana plains. This 2011 survey reveals a rural infrastructure organized around a strictly surveyed grid of section lines and secondary routes like Fas 470 and Road 452. The placement of these community institutions at the junction of Road 446 suggests a long-standing local center for the surrounding ranching or agricultural operations, providing genealogists and local historians a precise look at these rural cornerstones at the start of the 21st century.