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1970 Map of Denson Ranch

Name: 1970 Topographic Map of Denson Ranch
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1973
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1973

About this map

Tiber Reservoir dominates this Toole County landscape, where the waters of the Marias River are held at an elevation of 2982 feet. The terrain is defined by deep, winding drainage systems including Marsh Coulee to the north and the complex branching of Hoffman Coulee and Dead Indian Coulee to the south.

Evidence of human enterprise and habitation is found at the Denson Ranch, situated on the bluffs overlooking the reservoir. Industrial markers of the early 1970s appear as a pipeline traversing the western edge of the quadrangle and a specific Drill Hole located on the high ground between the river and the southern coulees. The map reflects a moment in the development of the Missouri River Basin, capturing the shoreline and topography as they appeared following aerial surveys in the 1960s.