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1951 Map of Rimrock Divide

Name: 1951 Topographic Map of Rimrock Divide
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1953
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1953

About this map

High-altitude ranching and timber claims define this 1951 survey of the Crazy Mountains in Meagher County. The landscape is a complex intersection of the Lewis and Clark National Forest and Gallatin National Forest, divided by the prominent Rimrock Divide. The drainage of the Musselshell River and its Bozeman Fork carve through the terrain, creating deep features like Box Canyon.

Evidence of early 20th-century high-country life is scattered throughout the drainages, though many sites are marked as abandoned by mid-century. Researchers can trace the legacy of family holdings such as the Rostad Ranch and the isolated Glenne Cabin. The map serves as a record of the shifting boundary between active grazing at Haypress Meadow and the surrounding wilderness of Bald Ridge and Woodchuck Ridge.