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2020 Map of Fairview NW

Name: 2020 Topographic Map of Fairview NW
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2020
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2020

About this map

Antelope Butte rises above the dissected rangeland of Richland County in this modern survey of the northeastern Montana plains. The landscape is defined by an intricate network of drainage coulees and seasonal creeks, including Sheep Camp Coulee and Benson Coulee, which carve through the high prairie. Human presence is marked primarily by the rectangular grid of the Public Land Survey System, with township boundaries like t26n r58e and t26n r59e organizing the vast open spaces.

A sparse network of county roads, such as Co RD 142 and Co RD 351, provides the only overland passage through the ranching territory. For genealogists and local historians, the Fourmile Cem in the northeast quadrant stands as a significant point of interest, representing the long-standing community ties in this isolated corner of the state where watercourses like the N Fork Fourmile Cr and Second Hay Cr dictated the early patterns of land use and settlement.