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1901 Map of St. Xavier

Name: 1901 Topographic Map of St. Xavier
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1917
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1917

About this map

St. Xavier Mission stands near the confluence of Big Horn River and Beauvais Creek, anchoring this turn-of-the-century portrait of southern Montana. Surveyed in the 1890s, the landscape is defined by the extensive Crow Indian Reservation, which transitions from river valleys to the high peaks of the Bighorn Mountains and the Bighorn National Forest at the Wyoming border.

Historical transportation and military markers are prominent, including the Old Bozeman Emigrant Road cutting across the central plains and the Site of Old Fort C. F. Smith near Lime Hill. The intricate drainage system of the Little Born River and its tributaries, such as Lodge Grass Creek and Rotten Grass Creek, illustrates the essential relationship between water and land use in this high-plains environment before significant modern development.