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1935 Map of Thompson Lakes

Name: 1935 Topographic Map of Thompson Lakes
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1964
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1964

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The Kootenai River snakes through the northwest corner of this mid-1930s survey, dictating the path of the Great Northern Railway as it passes through the small settlement of Warland. This landscape is defined by the heavy timber of the Kootenai National Forest, where a network of remote outposts like the Raven Ranger Sta and Fairview Guard Sta supported forest management in a time when mountain peaks served as critical lookout points.

South of the river, the Fisher River and its various forks carve through the terrain toward the Thompson Lakes region. Evidence of isolated rural life is found at McGinnis Meadows and its associated McGinnis Meadows Sch, alongside the Pleasant Valley Sch further east. These small schoolhouses and scattered guard stations reveal the sparse, work-oriented settlement patterns in the Montana wilderness before modern road networks were fully established.