1983 Map of Moonlight Creek

About this map

Butte Creek Cem sits in the northwestern corner of this Garfield County landscape, marking a solitary point of record in a sparsely settled ranching region. The terrain is defined by a series of drainages, most notably Moonlight Creek and the meandering Butte Creek, which give way to the prominent elevation of Smoky Butte in the south. The presence of the Trumbo Ranch and a remote Landing Strip underscores the vast distances and specialized infrastructure required for life in this part of Montana during the early 1980s. A network of unimproved roads and trails connects scattered resources like Tanks and a Well, tracing the practical geography of livestock management across Butts Coulee and the basin of Smoky Butte Creek.