1983 Map of Park Lake

About this map

Sheridan County, Montana, meets the international border with Canada in this late-twentieth-century study of the high prairie landscape. The area is defined by a series of saline and freshwater basins, including Johnson Lake, Salt Lake, and the centrally located Park Lake. Human settlement is concentrated at Comertown in the southeast corner, where the grid of sections meets local land use evidenced by a Gravel Pit and a designated Cem. The map documents the intricate topography of the Lake Alma Rural Municipality No 8 and Sheridan County line, showing a terrain of sloughs and depressions such as Widgeon Slough and Corners Lake. This environment, recorded just before the mid-1980s, reflects the transition between the agricultural lands of Montana and the Saskatchewan borderlands, where natural drainage and elevation changes dictate the placement of roads and homesteads.