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1973 Map of Mail Shack Creek

Name: 1973 Topographic Map of Mail Shack Creek
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1976
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1976

About this map

Lake Oahe and the Missouri River define the western edge of this central South Dakota landscape, where the water meets the rising elevation of the Sully Buttes. The geography is marked by legacy administrative lines, including the Old Military Reservation Boundary and an Old Treaty Boundary, which intersect the drainage patterns of Mail Shack Creek and Bakers Gulch. A small Trailer Park and an adjacent Gravel Pit appear near the shoreline, indicating localized human activity and resource extraction during this mid-1970s period.

Conservation and recreation are represented by the Koenig State Public Shooting Area, which stretches along the river bottomlands. The map provides a detailed view of the transition from the inundated river valley to the higher prairie benches, capturing the area as it functioned before modern development further altered these historic territorial and county lines between Stanley and Sully counties.