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1901 Map of St. Xavier

Name: 1901 Topographic Map of St. Xavier
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1939
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1939

About this map

St. Xavier Mission and the confluence of the Big Horn River and Soap Creek anchor this late nineteenth-century reconnaissance of south-central Montana. The landscape is defined by the expansive Crow Indian Reservation, where the terrain transitions from river valleys to the high peaks of the Big Horn Mountains in the southwest. A significant historical waypoint is noted at the Site of Old Fort C. F. Smith, near the mouth of Lime Kiln Creek, marking a strategic position along the river.

Transportation through this territory is traced via the Old Bozeman Emigrant Road, which snakes across the drainage of Rotten Grass Creek and Lodge Grass Creek. The map documents the early administrative boundaries of the region, including the Bighorn National Forest and the Montana Wyoming state line. Prominent landmarks such as Mission Buttes and Point Lookout provide essential orientation in this water-cut landscape of the Little Horn River basin.