1952 Map of Lantry NW

About this map

The Cheyenne River Indian Reservation occupies much of this West River landscape, where the deeply incised valleys of the Cheyenne River and Moreau River cut through the high plains. Surveyed in the early 1950s as part of the Department of the Interior's Missouri River Basin development program, the map documents a transition in rural education and land use. Small local schools like Liebelt Sch and O Donnell Sch serve the scattered ranching community, while named water sources like Jewitt Pond, Pretty Creek, and Bear Creek define the navigation of the cattle-grazing territory. The boundary between Ziebach Co and Dewey Co bisects the northern section of the map, following established section lines across the breaks and plateaus. This record preserves the location of isolated homesteads and public buildings before the consolidation of rural districts changed the social geography of the plains.