1968 Map of Sand Butte Rim NW

About this map

Sixmile Rim and Sand Butte Rim define the high, arid landscape of this Sweetwater County region during the late 1960s. The topography is dominated by these prominent escarpments and the drainage networks that carve through them, including Patrick Draw and Long Draw. The presence of several Drill Holes across the quadrangle points to the energy exploration and extractive industry that shaped the economy of the Red Desert and Washakie Basin during this era. Below the cliffs of the south, the Sand Wash provides a primary seasonal watercourse. This survey captures a specific moment in the industrial development of the Wyoming backcountry, where the physical isolation of the rimrock met the expanding reach of resource surveying.