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1967 Map of Jeans Fork SE

Name: 1967 Topographic Map of Jeans Fork SE
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1971
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1971

About this map

The Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation Boundary runs through this section of Big Horn County, Montana, providing a stark geographic divide across the drainage basins of the Tullock Creek system. During the late 1960s, this landscape was defined by its water sources, with numerous labeled Springs and isolated Wells supporting ranching or transit through the undulating terrain. The drainage network is particularly detailed here, featuring the Teeth Creek, Deafy Creek, and Ash Creek tributaries that feed into the larger forks.

Infrastructure is sparse in this open country, represented primarily by an unimproved Landing Strip and a network of section-line fences. The naming of the waterways, such as Jeans Fork and Davis Creek, reflects the cattle ranching history and local family footprints on the land before the modernization of the interstate era fully transformed the regional logistics. This map is a record of the specialized water-dependent land use in the high plains prior to extensive development.