1964 Map of Howard Butte

About this map

Smith Mountain and the high ridges of the Wallowa National Forest define this landscape along the Union and Wallowa county line. Surveyed in the mid-1960s with 1980s revisions, the map reveals a rugged interior where survival and transit depended on a network of meadows and seasonal creek drainages. Named clearings such as Howard Meadow, James Meadow, and Eustace Meadow served as vital landmarks within the timbered terrain, while Sopher Ridge provided a natural divide above the Fisher Gulch drainage.