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1997 Map of Goat Peak

Name: 1997 Topographic Map of Goat Peak
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2000
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2000

About this map

The Cabinet Mountains Wilderness dominates this corner of Montana, where the boundary between Lincoln and Sanders counties follows the crest of high ridgelines. This landscape is defined by the steep elevation gains between drainages like Swamp Creek and the high summits of Goat Peak and Twenty Peak. The map reveals a complex network of forest management and early resource extraction, with the Kaniksu National Forest being administered by the Kootenai National Forest.

Evidence of historical prospecting is found near the eastern edge of the quadrangle, marked simply as Mines near Silver Butte Creek. High-altitude water bodies such as Baree Lake and Bear Lakes are accessible only via established paths like the Bear Lakes Trail and Lake Creek Trail, reflecting a terrain that remained largely undeveloped and focused on wilderness preservation and watershed protection through the late twentieth century.