1963 Map of Tea Kettle Rock

About this map

Tea Kettle Rock and the high ground of Ninemile Hill dominate this Goshen County landscape as it appeared in the early 1960s. Surveyed as part of the Department of the Interior program for the development of the Missouri River Basin, the map illustrates a sparsely settled region defined by its topography and industrial utility. A single Landing Strip and the unimproved track of Tea Kettle Rock Road provide the primary transportation infrastructure for the area. The presence of a Sandpit and a marked Well suggest localized resource extraction and water management in this high plains environment. The terrain is carefully detailed with twenty-foot contours, showing the complex drainage patterns and elevation changes across the township lines of T. 26 N. and T. 25 N.