1961 Map of Spearfish

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Spearfish serves as the gateway to the northern Black Hills National Forest in this early 1960s survey, updated in the 1970s. The town's layout shows the early campus of Black Hills State College and the local High Sch near the northern edge of the hills. The landscape is defined by the transition from Centennial Prairie into the high gulches of the Black Hills, where landmarks like Lookout Peak and Spearfish Peak overlook the winding course of Spearfish Creek. A notable feature is the interstate construction slicing through the prairie east of town, a major infrastructure shift at the time of the 1971 revisions. Further south, the settlement of Maitland and the Mount Theodore Roosevelt Monument mark the interior heights of the forest, surrounded by numerous named drainages such as Paradise Gulch and Blacktail Gulch.