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1957 Map of Havre

Name: 1957 Topographic Map of Havre
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1957
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1957

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The Milk River corridor serves as the primary artery for settlement and commerce across this northern Montana landscape, following the Great Northern rail line through Havre and eastern towns like Chinook, Harlem, and Dodson. South of the river, the terrain rises sharply into the Bear Paw Mountains and the Rocky Boy Mountains, housing the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation and Beaver Creek State Park.

Industry and government infrastructure are evident in the mid-1950s, from the Chinook No 1 mining site to the Fort Belknap Agency Headquarters on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. To the north, the plains are dotted with critical conservation areas including the Lake Thibadeau National Wildlife Refuge and Black Coulee National Wildlife Refuge, marking a stark contrast between the managed agricultural river valley and the open coulee-cut grasslands reaching toward the Canadian border.