Loading map...

1965 Map of Evanston

Name: 1965 Topographic Map of Evanston
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1968
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1968

About this map

Evanston serves as a critical transportation and institutional hub on the high plains of southwestern Wyoming, positioned where the Union Pacific Railroad follows the winding course of the Bear River. The 1960s landscape reveals the town's expanding infrastructure, including the Evanston Municipal Airport and a centralized industrial-commercial core featuring a Drive-in Theater and the State Hosp campus. Water management is a primary theme of the terrain, visible through the City Aqueduct and reservoirs like Crompton Reservoir and Painter Reservoir that dot the surrounding draws.

Rising sharply to the northeast, Medicine Butte dominates the horizon, while the southern landscape is defined by the complex topography of Robinson Valley and Pleasant Valley. For researchers, the map provides precise locations for civic landmarks such as the Fairground, the local Cemetery, and Hamblin Park, documenting the community's footprint before later twentieth-century development altered the outskirts of the county seat.