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1951 Map of Grannis

Name: 1951 Topographic Map of Grannis
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1976
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1976

About this map

Shields River valley life in the early 1950s is defined by a network of family-held homesteads and rural irrigation projects. The map documents several named ranching properties, including the Eyman Ranch, Hetzel Ranch, and Bohleen Ranch, illustrating the dispersed settlement pattern of this Montana landscape. Education for these rural families centered on the Falls Creek School and Grannis School, which served the small community of Grannis near the southern boundary.

Water management is a central theme of the topography, evidenced by the Lower Shields Valley Ditch and numerous named tributaries like Falls Creek and Adair Creek that descend from the high ground of Sheep Mountain and Rattlesnake Ridge. This survey, based on 1948 aerial photography and 1951 field checks, captures the area as a functional agricultural corridor before modern consolidation changed the rural social landscape.