1951 Map of Menan Buttes

About this map

Menan Buttes dominate the southwestern corner of this 1951 Idaho survey, rising sharply above the braided floodplains where the Henrys Fork Snake River and the Snake River converge. The landscape reveals a complex network of agricultural irrigation, with the St Anthony Canal, Independent Canal, and Rexburg Canal cutting through the Egin Bench to feed the surrounding valley. Along the riverbanks, numerous sloughs such as Millward Slough and Cartier Slough wind around landforms like Big Island and Little Island, illustrating the shifting nature of the river system before modern water management matured. Local history is anchored by the Historic Monument Site of First Ferry and the Beaver Dick Cemetery near the North Fork Bridge. The presence of the Independence Sch (Abandoned) and the Union Pacific railroad tracks reflects the changing patterns of early settlement and rural education in the Jefferson and Madison county borderlands.