2020 Map of Fourteenmile Coulee SE

About this map

Deeply etched drainage patterns define this Montana landscape, where Sixmile Coulee and Fourteenmile Coulee carve through the high plains. The map records the boundary where Hill and Chouteau counties meet, a quiet agricultural divide structured by the Public Land Survey System. Travel in the region follows a sparse but deliberate grid of section-line roads, including Gilford Rd S and N Lonesome Lake Rd, which provide access to the wide-open ranching and dry-land farming territories. Water is the primary architect here; intermittent streams like Twelvemile Coulee illustrate the hydraulic connectivity of the Big Sandy creek drainage system. The settlement pattern is characterized by long-distance connectivity rather than concentrated towns, with routes like Box Elder Rd linking the isolated townships of T30N and T29N.