1967 Map of Gordon Creek

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The Middle Fork Powder River carves through this high-country landscape where Johnson, Washakie, and Natrona Counties meet. The 1967 survey reveals a remote terrain defined by a dense network of drainages, including the headwaters of Bachaus Creek, Sullivan Creek, and Roush Creek. Evidence of ranching and land use is sparse but specific, marked by a lonely Corral and a station noted as WC. Transport is limited to rugged tracks like the Jeep Trail that follows the ridges near North Poker Creek and Carpenter Creek. This map captures a moment of topographical stability in the Wyoming backcountry, where family-named features like Stubbs Creek and the heights of Middlefork suggest the long history of livestock grazing and open-range land management in the Powder River Basin headwaters.