2011 Map of Potato Buttes

About this map

Potato Buttes rise above a landscape defined by an intricate network of drainage systems in this rural Carter County area. The map records the paths of L O Creek and its tributary, East Fork L O Creek, alongside Trail Creek and South Butte Creek. Water management in this arid cattle country is represented by the Clem-Reid Number 1 Dam in the northern portion of the quadrangle. Human infrastructure is minimal, centered primarily on primitive routes like Cottonwood Rd and several unnamed local roads that follow the natural topography. The drainage pattern, including North Cottonwood Creek and S Deep Creek, illustrates the erosional forces that have shaped the characteristic buttes of eastern Montana.