1951 Map of Wolf Hill

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Rees Hills and Wolf Hill dominate this high-country landscape at the border of Meagher and Park counties. This 1951 field survey, published as part of the Department of the Interior's Missouri River Basin development program, shows a remote ranching economy centered around water sources like Sixteenmile Creek and Cottonwood Creek. The presence of several named family homesteads, including the Gjerde Ranch, Arthur Ranch, and the Staley Place, provides specific points of interest for genealogists tracing early twentieth-century land use in this part of Montana. Industrial attempts in the area are visible through the markers for a Coal Mine (Aband) and an Oil Well (Aband), suggesting a period of resource prospecting that had largely subsided by the time of the mid-century field check.