1971 Map of Lookout Butte

About this map

Cedar Creek meanders deeply across the prairie of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, defining the border between Grant and Sioux counties. This landscape, surveyed in the early 1970s, is characterized by prominent high points including Lookout Butte, Cedar Butte, and Smokey Butte that rise above the drainage systems of Plum Creek and Timber Creek. The sparse settlement patterns of this era are evident in the isolated Communion Cemetery and scattered Well sites across the township grids. These small, localized landmarks, alongside a solitary Grave and small Gravel Pit operations, provide important touchstones for understanding the rural infrastructure and genealogy of the Cannonball river basin before more modern developments altered the region.