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1951 Map of Y U Bench NW

Name: 1951 Topographic Map of Y U Bench NW
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1952
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1952

About this map

Yu Bench dominates this high-plains landscape in Park County, showing the region as it was surveyed in the early 1950s. The map illustrates a transition from the elevated bench land down into the Dry Creek Basin, where the drainage network includes the North Fork Dry Creek and South Fork Dry Creek. Evidence of early water management is found in the northwestern corner with the Wiley Canal (Aban'd), a reminder of the ambitious irrigation projects common to this arid portion of the Missouri River Basin development area.

Transportation through this territory relies on established routes such as the Keystone Burlington-Meeteetse Road near the southern boundary and the historic Lone Tree Crossing. Scattered corrals and a Gravel Pit indicate the local ranching and maintenance activity of the period. Prominent landforms like Red Point and Beach serve as navigational anchors across the open terrain leading down toward the Greybull R.