1958 Map of Teepee Buttes

About this map

Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park borders the southern edge of this North Dakota landscape, where the Missouri River Basin development program documented a terrain defined by high points like Tepee Buttes, Clay Butte, and Stony Johnny Butte. Small rural community hubs are found along the drainage of Cherry Creek and Spring Creek, indicated by isolated institutions such as Cherry Sch and Pleasant Hill Sch. For genealogists and local historians, the presence of the Tepee Buttes Cem and Salem Cem provides fixed points of reference for the families who settled this part of McKenzie County. The map illustrates a network of unimproved roads and trails connecting these remote landmarks before modern infrastructure extensively altered the northern plains.