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Montana Department of Highways, Photogrammetry and Survey Unit records, 1956-1982

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Montana. Department of Highways
Title
Montana Department of Highways, Photogrammetry and Survey Unit records
Dates
1956-1982 (inclusive)
Quantity
3.8 linear feet
Collection Number
RS 492 (Formerly RS 408)
Summary
This collection is a sub-subgroup (Unit) of the Montana Department of Transportation records, RS 492. The Photogrammetry and Survey Unit now falls under the Highways Bureau in the Engineering Division. Please see the primary finding aid for more Montana Department of Transportation records. This collection (1956-1982) consists of subject files.
Repository
Montana Historical Society, Library & Archives
Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 4064442681
Fax: 4064445297
mhslibrary@mt.gov
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
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Historical Note

The Montana State Highway Commission was created in 1913 by the state Legislative Assembly. The original Commission was composed of three members. In 1917 new legislation altered the organization of the Commission by authorizing the appointment of twelve members according to geographic highway districts. Membership was changed again in 1921 to three members appointed by the Governor and in 1941 to five members, also appointed by the Governor. In 1971 the Commission was renamed the Montana Department of Highways, created by Chapter 7 of the Executive Reorganization Act of 1971 and implemented by executive order of the Governor on December 16, 1971. The Department of Highways took over all but the advisory functions of the State Highway Commission.

By 1972, the Department consisted of seven divisions: the Legal Division, Personnel Division, Centralized Services Division, Engineering Division, Motor Pool Division, Gross Vehicle Weight Division, and the Maintenance Division. Each division is headed by an administrator. The Centralized Services Division, Engineering Division, Motor Pool Division, Gross Vehicle Weight Division, and the Maintenance Division are furthered sub-divided into bureaus, headed by Chiefs. In 1991, the Department of Highways became the Department of Transportation. This was primarily a name change. However, there were some structural and administrative changes.

Montana’s Department of Highway began heavy construction of the Interstate Highways in 1959, initiated by the Federal Highway Act of 1956. Construction and development peaked in the early 1970s and was completed by the 1980s. The Photogrammetry and Survey Section was developed in response to the Highway Act and a need for improvements and standardization of the Interstates in Montana.

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Content Description

The Photogrammetry and Survey Section primarily took aerial photography of Interstates 90, 94, 15, and routes around major Montana cities. The images, surveys, and reports identified locations, topography, rest areas, pits, and structures for use in design of projects and mapping. The section also produced aerial photographic records of slide areas, as well as Highways land involved in litigation. The files are primarily project—or route—related aerial photographs, along with monitoring reports, level notes, and some correspondence.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The Montana Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Research Library before any reproduction use. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.

Preferred Citation

Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

This collection is in one series, Subject Files, arranged by specific image area, along Interstate or Highway route or structure.

Location of Collection

40:4-7

Processing Note

In 2024, the various collections of the Montana Department of Transportation were integrated under one collection identifier, RS 492, in order to help facilitate access, reduce redundancy in the MTHS catalog, and to follow best archival practices.

Collections from Montana Department of Transportation's various Divisions and Bureaus that were previously treated as separate entities are now integrated into this collection, RS 492. Rather than reprocessing over 280 linear feet of Transportation materials, MTHS staff decided to keep the past arrangement of those collections/finding aids, and provide access to them via links through the central finding aid. This decision has allowed the MTHS archival staff to maintain intellectual control over the collection, while removing the need to reprocess it. It also keeps State Agency finding aids at manageable sizes. Please read the scope and content note carefully to determine if this subgroup/sub-subgroup pertains to your research needs.

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information available upon request

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Detailed Description of the Collection
  • Subject Files

    • Description: I-90 : Park City to Laurel
      Dates: 1960-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 1/1
    • Description: I-90 : Billings East / Route 101-II
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box/Folder 1/2
    • Description: Livingston South
      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box/Folder 1/3
    • Description: I-90 : Toluca North
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box/Folder 1/4
    • Description: I-90 : Columbus – Park City, Rest Areas / Interchanges
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box/Folder 1/5
    • Description: I-90 : Bozeman East to Livingston West
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box/Folder 1/6
    • Description: I-90 : Columbus to Park City
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 1/7
    • Description: I-90 : Columbus East and West
      Dates: 1963-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 1/8
    • Description: I-90 : Toluca Expansion
      Dates: 1956-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 1/9
    • Description: I-90 : Toluca to Hardin, Lodgegrass, Route 103
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box/Folder 1/10
    • Description: I-90 : Toluca to Hardin, East Fork Pryor Creek
      Dates: 1961, 1968
      Container: Box/Folder 1/11
    • Description: I-90 : Billings to Toluca, Bitter Creek
      Dates: 1961-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 1/12
    • Description: I-90 : Billings to Toluca, North Route
      Dates: 1956-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 1/13
    • Description: I-90 : Billings Interchange
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box/Folder 1/14
    • Description: I-90 : Lodge Grass, North
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box/Folder 1/15
    • Description: I-90 : Lodge Grass, Wyola
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box/Folder 1/16
    • Description: I-90 : Clinton to Drummond Expansion
      Dates: 1956-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 1/17
    • Description: I-90 : Bozeman Pass
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box/Folder 1/18
    • Description: I-90 : Lookout Pass West, Saltese East
      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box/Folder 1/19
    • Description: I-90 : Saltese to Drexel
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box/Folder 1/20
    • Description: I-90 : Lookout / Mullan Pass
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box/Folder 1/21
    • Description: I-90 : Tarkio to Mullan
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box/Folder 1/22
    • Description: I-90 : Reed Point East
      Dates: 1967-1968
      Container: Box/Folder 1/23
    • Description: Route 101, Rocker Interchange
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box/Folder 1/24
    • Description: I-90 : Missoula West Design
      Dates: 1961-1975
      Container: Box/Folder 1/25
    • Description: I-90 : Three Forks Rest Area
      Dates: 1975
      Container: Box/Folder 1/26
    • Description: I-90 : Gold Creek, Phosphate Rest Area
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box/Folder 1/27
    • Description: Gold Creek Gravel Pit
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box/Folder 1/28
    • Description: Clinton West, Gas lines and Railroad
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box/Folder 1/29
    • Description: Warm Springs, Interchanges / Racetrack
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box/Folder 1/30
    • Description: I-90 : Garrison, Drummond
      Dates: 1960-1968
      Container: Box/Folder 1/31
    • Description: I-90 : Garrison, Widening
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1/32
    • Description: 101-I : Dear Lodge, Warm Springs
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 1/33
    • Description: Midigan Canyou / Ballard Coulee
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box/Folder 1/34
    • Description: Phosphate Interchange
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box/Folder 2/1
    • Description: Warm Springs Gravel Pit
      Dates: 1978-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 2/2
    • Description: I-90 : Ramsay Interchange
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box/Folder 2/3
    • Description: I-90 : Drummond Way
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box/Folder 2/4
    • Description: I-90 : Missoula West and Urban
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box/Folder 2/5
    • Description: Cardwell Interchange
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 2/6
    • Description: Cardwell : Three Forks North Route
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box/Folder 2/7
    • Description: Three Forks to US 289 Interchange
      Dates: 1962-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 2/8
    • Description: I-90 : Whitehall East, Limespur, Jefferson Canyon
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box/Folder 2/9
    • Description: Whitehall – Three Forks, Cottonwood Canyon
      Dates: 1961-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 2/10
    • Description: I-90: Bozeman, Livingston
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box/Folder 2/11
    • Description: Livingston – East / West, Snow Fence
      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box/Folder 2/12
    • Description: I-90 : Superior West
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box/Folder 2/13
    • Description: I-90 : Drexel Quarry Site
      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box/Folder 2/14
    • Description: DeBorgia Weigh Station
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box/Folder 2/15-16
    • Description: I-94 : Fallon-Dawson County Line
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box/Folder 2/17
    • Description: I-94 : Prairie County Line Rest Area
      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box/Folder 2/18
    • Description: I-94 : Terry West
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box/Folder 2/19
    • Description: South of Terry
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box/Folder 2/19
    • Description: I-94 : Fallon Dawson County Line
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box/Folder 2/20
    • Description: Blatchford to Terry / Terry East and West
      Dates: 1956-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 2/21
    • Description: I-94 : Custer East and West
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box/Folder 2/22
    • Description: I-94 : Custer East
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 2/23
    • Description: East / Northeast of Custer Interchange
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box/Folder 2/24
    • Description: I-94 : Pompey’s Pillar to Custer
      Dates: 1956-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 2/25
    • Description: I-94 : Pompey’s Pillar
      Dates: 1956-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 2/26
    • Description: I-94 Interchanges, Ballatine to Pompey’s Pillar
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 2/27
    • Description: I-94 : Terry Interchange, Miles City
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 2/28
    • Description: I-94 : Ballatine Expansion
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box/Folder 2/29
    • Description: US 87 Junction to Huntley
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box/Folder 2/30
    • Description: I-94 : Hysham Hills
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box/Folder 2/31
    • Description: I-94 : Rosebud West, Wild Cat Creek
      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box/Folder 2/32
    • Description: I-94 : Rosebud East Rest Areas
      Dates: 1969
      Container: Box/Folder 2/33
    • Description: I-94 : Rosebud to Hathaway
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box/Folder 2/34
    • Description: I-94 : Shirley West
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box/Folder 2/35
    • Description: I-94 : Shirley East
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box/Folder 2/36
    • Description: I-94 : Forsyth East and West
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box/Folder 2/37
    • Description: Hysham-Forsyth
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box/Folder 2/38
    • Description: I-94 : Forsyth East and West
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box/Folder 2/39
    • Description: I-94 : Shirley West
      Dates: 1971-1972
      Container: Box/Folder 2/40
    • Description: I-94 : Hysham-Forsyth, 6 miles east of Rosebud- Treasure (Along Railroad track)
      Dates: 1956-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 2/41
    • Description: I-94 : Hysham-Forsyth
      Dates: 1959-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 3/1
    • Description: I-94 : Hysham
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box/Folder 3/2
    • Description: I-94 : Prairie County Line West
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box/Folder 3/3
    • Description: I-94 : Diamon Ring Rest Area
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box/Folder 3/4
    • Description: I-94 : Wiboux County Line West (Rest Areas) Glendive
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box/Folder 3/5
    • Description: I-94 : Glendive East and West
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box/Folder 3/6
    • Description: I-94 : Glendive East
      Dates: 1962-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 3/7
    • Description: I-94 : Rest Area East of Glendive
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box/Folder 3/8
    • Description: I-94 : Glendive Fallon
      Dates: 1956-1961
      Container: Box/Folder 3/9
    • Description: I-15 Proposed Construction / Pipe Organ Lodge
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box/Folder 3/10
    • Description: I-15 : Cascade, Hardy Creek, Interchange
      Dates: 1971-1972
      Container: Box/Folder 3/11
    • Description: I-15 : Interchanges 9 miles North of Conrad
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 3/12
    • Description: I-15 : North of Conrad
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box/Folder 3/13
    • Description: I-15 : Dillon-Melrose Reservoir Area
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3/14
    • Description: I-15 : Vaugh North Rest Area
      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box/Folder 3/15
    • Description: I-15 : Interchange North of Shelby
      Dates: 1968-1971
      Container: Box/Folder 3/16
    • Description: I-15 : Dearborn, Missouri River Junction
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box/Folder 3/17
    • Description: I-15 : Power Interchange
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box/Folder 3/18
    • Description: I-15 : Maria’s River Rest Area
      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box/Folder 3/19
    • Description: I-15 : Teton Interchange
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box/Folder 3/20
    • Description: I-15 : Emerson Junction Interchange, North of Great Falls
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 3/21
    • Description: I-15 : Collins Interchange
      Dates: 1979-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 3/22
    • Description: I-15 : Teton Rest Area
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box/Folder 3/23
    • Description: I-15 : Boulder Hill
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box/Folder 3/24
    • Description: MacDonald Creek Grass Range / Hydraulics
      Dates: 1973-1978
      Container: Box/Folder 3/25
    • Description: Vogel Parcel
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3/26
    • Description: Kalispell Drainage Study / Mapping for Litigation
      Dates: 1969-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 3/27
    • Description: East Helena Drainage and Litigation Study
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box/Folder 3/28
    • Description: Vogel Parcel – Legal
      Dates: 1964-1975
      Container: Box/Folder 3/29
    • Description: Bear Creek / ER 72
      Dates: 1975-1976
      Container: Box/Folder 3/30
    • Description: Colstrip Road to I-94
      Dates: 1973-1978
      Container: Box/Folder 3/31
    • Description: Columbus Gardens Interchange Study
      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box/Folder 3/32
    • Description: Cooney Reservoir, Department of Natural Resources and Conservation
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box/Folder 3/33
    • Description: Canyon Ferry / National Guard Area
      Dates: 1975-1976
      Container: Box/Folder 3/34
    • Description: Department of Natural Resources and Conservation : Acid Mine and Mill Site Study, Cooke City
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 3/35
    • Description: Department of Natural Resources and Conservation : Ruby River, Nevada River, Deadman’s Creek
      Dates: 1977-1978
      Container: Box/Folder 3/36
    • Description: Craig Slide North and South : I-15
      Dates: 1970-1984
      Container: Box/Folder 3/37
    • Description: St. Regis Slide Areas
      Dates: 1979-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 3/38
    • Description: Mission Slide Interchange : I-90
      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box/Folder 3/39
    • Description: Hebgen Lake Slide
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 3/40
    • Description: Slide Camps Pass – US 212, Ashland East
      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box/Folder 3/41
    • Description: Slide North of Fred Robertson Bridge, US 191
      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box/Folder 3/42
    • Description: Slide Area 6 miles South of Livingston
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box/Folder 3/43
    • Description: Pine Hill / Pryor Creek Slide Area, I-90
      Dates: 1975-1976
      Container: Box/Folder 3/44
    • Description: Sheep Creek Bridge Slide Area, FI 15
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box/Folder 3/45
    • Description: Pipe Organ Slide Area Construction
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box/Folder 3/46
    • Description: Kagy Boulevard From 19th and 3rd, Bozeman
      Dates: 1982
      Container: Box/Folder 4/1
    • Description: US 230, 4th and 6th Street Couplet, Exposition Drive S. 437 - Billings
      Dates: 1974-1975
      Container: Box/Folder 4/2
    • Description: US 230, Exposition Drive, Billings
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 4/3
    • Description: Columbia Falls, F 100
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box/Folder 4/4
    • Description: Northwest Bypass of M 5209
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box/Folder 4/5
    • Description: Fort Harrison
      Dates: 1973-1974
      Container: Box/Folder 4/6
    • Description: Bozeman, Oak, Tamerack, Peach –Street Extensions
      Dates: 1969-1975
      Container: Box/Folder 4/7
    • Description: U 149, Great Falls 10th Street Bridge Study
      Dates: 1969
      Container: Box/Folder 4/8
    • Description: 24th Street, Great Falls, South Side Bypass
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 4/9
    • Description: Great Falls Central Ave. Bridge
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box/Folder 4/10
    • Description: Kalispell South, F5-3
      Dates: 1982
      Container: Box/Folder 4/11
    • Description: U218, Great Falls, 10th Ave and 6th Street
      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box/Folder 4/12
    • Description: F277, Great Falls 10th Ave S.
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box/Folder 4/13
    • Description: F135, Miles City Railroad Underpass
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box/Folder 4/14
    • Description: F531, 27th Street Billings North
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box/Folder 4/15
    • Description: Great Falls River Drive, 6th Street to Giant Springs
      Dates: 1970-1977
      Container: Box/Folder 4/16
    • Description: Butte South Side Bypass
      Dates: 1970-1971
      Container: Box/Folder 5/1
    • Description: Butte – East Park and Continental Drive
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box/Folder 5/2
    • Description: U53. Wicks Lane – Bench Boulevard
      Dates: 1974-1975
      Container: Box/Folder 5/3
    • Description: Bozeman, 19th Ave and Oak
      Dates: 1982-1983
      Container: Box/Folder 5/4
    • Description: Havre Bypass
      Dates: 1978
      Container: Box/Folder 5/5
    • Description: Billings – Grand Ave, Division to 24th
      Dates: 1974-1975
      Container: Box/Folder 5/6
    • Description: Havre – Hospital Connection
      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box/Folder 5/7
    • Description: Fort Benton, Highwood
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box/Folder 5/8
    • Description: Montana Ave N, Helena
      Dates: 1979
      Container: Box/Folder 5/9

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Subject Terms

  • Express Highways
  • Highway engineering--Montana.
  • Roads--Design and construction

Geographical Names

  • Helena (Mont.)--Politics and government

Form or Genre Terms

  • Photographs
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