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1926 Map of Hell Creek

Name: 1926 Topographic Map of Hell Creek
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1926
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1926

About this map

Dehlin and its surrounding ranching country define this corner of Southeast Idaho in the mid-1920s. The landscape is a complex network of high ridges and deep drainage basins, anchored by the Caribou National Forest to the east and the Boise Base Line bisecting the quadrangle. Early 20th-century civic life is visible in the placement of the Dehlin School and the Pipe Creek School, situated near the headwaters of the many creeks that feed the regional watershed.

Resource management and high-country travel are evident through landmarks like the Fall Creek Ranger Sta and family-named terrain features such as Skelly Hill, Dalton Hill, and Jumpoff Hill. The map meticulously tracks the winding courses of Bear Creek, Tex Creek, and Hell Creek, which carved the rugged paths used by early settlers and forest rangers before the expansion of modern highway systems.