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2012 Map of Devils Kitchen

Name: 2012 Topographic Map of Devils Kitchen
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2012
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2012

About this map

Devils Kitchen defines the northern reaches of this Big Horn County landscape, a terrain of arid gullies and draws situated east of the Big Horn River. The southern portion of the sheet reveals a complex irrigation network essential to Wyoming agriculture, where the Porter Canal, Shell Canal, and Whaley Ditch pull water from Shell Cr to serve the surrounding basins.

Surface transport in this era relies on a grid of local routes like Lane 33 and Road 34, alongside specialized thoroughfares such as Bentonite Rd, which points to the regional extraction of industrial clay. Numerous landforms carry the names of early settlers or ranchers, including Sheldon Gulch, Scharen Gulch, and Herren Gulch, providing clear geographic markers for genealogists tracing family footprints through this section of the Bighorn Basin.