1910 Map of Todd Lakes

About this map

The Fort Peck Indian Reservation dominates this 1910 landscape, a vast area of dissected plateaus and coulees surveyed by the General Land Office. The map illustrates a complex drainage system essential to the high plains, centered on the confluence and divergent branches of Wolf Creek. The intricate braiding of the West Fork, Middle Fork, and East Fork Wolf Creek reveals the natural hydrology of the terrain before later developments. Toward the northwest, Little Porcupine Creek and Cottonwood Creek cut through the rising elevations, while the eponymous Todd Lakes appear as small catchment basins in the southern reaches. This topographic study captures the region as a purely natural and administrative space, defined by its watercourses and the established Boundary Line between Valley and Sheridan counties.