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1980 Map of Lodge Grass

Name: 1980 Topographic Map of Lodge Grass
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1987
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1987

About this map

The Crow Indian Reservation dominates the landscape of this 1980 survey, covering a vast expanse of Big Horn County where the plains meet the rising ridges of the Wolf Mountains. The Little Bighorn River corridor serves as the primary artery for settlement and transport, with the Burlington Northern railroad tracking the valley floor through Lodge Grass, Wyola, and Spear. This infrastructure illustrates the late 20th-century reliance on rail for the movement of regional goods through the Montana-Wyoming borderlands.

In the west, the Bighorn River carves through the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, held back by the Yellowtail Dam. This area contrasts the irrigated valley near St Xavier with the complex network of high-country drainage basins like Rotten Grass Creek and Soap Creek. Local history is embedded in the naming of prominent landmarks such as War Man Mountain and Eagle Point, which rise above the coulees and buttes of the reservation.