MONTANA OFFICIAL MAPS
Notes:
A map dated 1928 and titled “Official Map of Montana” was produced by AAA and is not included in this list. Maps printed from 1955 through 1979, with the exception of the 1970 issue, have an area on the back cover for putting a person’s address when mailing the map. Some maps in this era also had a printed postage permit added to the upper right corner of the address area. The years known to have a postage permit added are: 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, and 1971. A map from 1963 is also known to exist that has a “VOID” stamped over the permit.
The reason for the second printing of the 2003-04 map was due to the first printing showing thousands of miles of dirt roads as being paved. This was corrected on the second printing.
Latest updates: 9/10/21-added second version for 1974; 12/26/23-removed extraneous information
Montana Maps:
1913; reported by PC (in red Hwy. Comm. folder)
1922; reported by Montana DOT
1923; dtd lgnd; no cvr; size unknown
1926; dtd lgnd; no cvr; size unknown
1932; dtd lgnd; no cvr; unfolded 35 x 24
1934; dtd cvr; blue/red dwg of car on mtn rd; 4 x 9
1935; dtd cvr; blue/red dwg of road and mtns; 4 x 9
[2 known versions: {First Edition}, {Second Edition}]
1936; dtd cvr; clr dwg of man fishing with horses, car & mtns in background; 4 x 9
1937; dtd cvr; clr dwg of bear in stream below waterfall; 4 x 9
1938; dtd cvr; bw/orange dwg of tree/mtn/riders waving at car; 4 x 9
1939; dtd cvr; orange/brown/grey dwg of car below silhouettes of cowboys & Indians; 4 x 9
1940; dtd cvr; yellow/black dwg of cowboys & Indians over cars; 4.25 x 9.25
1941; dtd cvr; blue/orange dwg of 2 people looking at snowy lake & mtn; 4.25 x 9.25
1942; dtd back cvr; orange/black dwg of Lady Liberty defending against the storm clouds of war; 4.25 x 9.25
1947; dtd cvr; same dwg as 1937, but different logo at bottom; 4 x 10.5
1948; dtd cvr; 2 clr photos (lake between cliffs/”Gates of the Mountains…” sign); 4 x 10.5
1949; dtd cvr; 2 clr photos (“The Little Big Horn”/”Garryowen” sign); 4 x 10.5
1950; dtd cvr; 2 clr photos (“The Garden Wall”/”Glacier National Park” sign); 4 x 10.5
1951; dtd cvr; 2 clr photos (“Badlands…Fort Peck Lake”/”Old Fort Peck” sign); 4 x 9.75
1952; dtd cvr; 2 clr photos (“Red Lodge-Cooke City Highway”/”The Red Lodge Country” sign); 4 x 9.75
1953; dtd cvr; 2 clr photos (“Indians Digging Bitter Roots”/”Montana’s State Flower” sign); 4 x 9.75
1954; dtd cvr; 2 clr photos (fisherman/”The Judith Basin Country” sign); 4 x 9.75
1955; dtd cvr; 2 clr photos (2 women overlooking river/”Lewis & Clark Sesquicentennial” sign); 4 x 9.75
1956; dtd cvr; clr photo of woman and car by lake, “Bull Lake” (ci); 6.5 x 9
1957; dtd cvr; clr photo of 2 women walking under trees with lake in background; 6.5 x 9
1958; dtd cvr; clr photo of 2 women looking at car with mtn in background, “MacDonald Pass” (ci); 6.5 x 9
1959; dtd cvr; clr photo of family in meadow, “Glacier National Park” (ci); 6.5 x 9
1960; dtd cvr; clr photo of people on trail in mtns, “Grinnell Glacier”; 6.5 x 9
1961; dtd cvr; clr photo of fisherman standing on rock, “Gallatin River”; 6.5 x 9
1962; dtd cvr; clr photo of family on horse back with dog, “Stillwater River”; 6.5 x 9
1963; dtd cvr; clr photo of man viewing snowy mtn next to yellow flowers, “Trappers Peak”; 6.5 x 9
1964; dtd cvr; clr painting, “Meeting the Flatheads” by C. M. Russell; 6.5 x 9
1965; dtd cvr; clr photo of buffalo in meadow; 6.5 x 9
1966; dtd cvr; clr photo of couple looking out over lake & mtns, “St. Mary Lake, Glacier Park”; 6.5 x 9
1967; dtd cvr; clr photo of man in canoe fishing, “Rainbow Trout in Glacier National Park”; 6.5 x 9
1968; dtd cvr; clr photo of road with Lewis and Clark Trail sign; 6.5 x 9
1969; dtd cvr; clr photo of Native American with buffalo skull; 6.5 x 9
1970; dtd cvr; clr photo “Montana’s Glacier National Park”; 6 x 8.75
1971; dtd cvr; clr photo “…boating on Montana’s magnificent Flathead Lake”; 6 x 8.75
1972; dtd cvr; clr photo “Summertime in the Bitterroot Valley, Trapper Peak”; 8.75 x 11.75 (booklet)
1973; dtd cvr; clr photo “East Rosebud Lake near the Beartooth Highway”; 8.75 x 11.25 (booklet)
1974; dtd cvr; clr photo “Annual Buffalo Roundup, National Bison Range”; 6 x 8.75
[2 known versions: { } and {Only 86 miles from Spokane’s EXPO ’74 on front cover}]
1975; dtd cvr; clr photo “Grinnell Lake in Glacier National Park”; 6 x 8.75
1976; dtd cvr; clr photo of bronze “Lewis and Clark Memorial, Fort Benton”; 6 x 8.75
1977; dtd cvr; clr photo of cowboys “MONTANA is Rodeo Country…”; 6 x 8.75
1978; dtd cvr; clr photo “Pelicans at Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge near Malta”; 6 x 8.75
1979; dtd cvr; clr photo “Lewis and Clark first described ‘Gates of the Mountains’…”; 6 x 8.75
1979-80; dtd cvr; otherwise very similar to 1979
1981-82; dtd cvr; clr photo “The Roundup #2 by Charles M. Russell”; 6 x 8.75
1983-84; dtd cvr; otherwise very similar to 1981-82
1985-86; dtd cvr; 2 clr photos (“Cowboy”/”Little Rockies”); 6 x 8.75
1987-88; dtd cvr; clr photo of couple with bicycle in mtns; 6 x 8.75
1989-90; dtd cvr; clr dwg “More than 50 years ago, cowboy artist Irvin ‘Shorty’ Shope…”; 6 x 8.75
1990-91; dtd cvr; clr photo “St. Mary’s Lake shimmers…”; 6 x 8.75
1991-92; dtd cvr; otherwise same as 1990-1991
1992-93; dtd cvr; clr photo “Lee Metcalf Wilderness”; 6 x 8.75
1993-94; dtd cvr; clr photo “Glacier National Park”; 6 x 8.75
1994-95; dtd cvr; clr photo “Paradise Valley”; 6 x 8.75
1995-96; dtd cvr; clr photo “Glacier National Park”; 6 x 8.75
1996-97; dtd cvr; clr photo Upper Missouri National Wild & Scenic River”; 6 x 8.75
1997-98; dtd cvr; clr photo “Ulm Pishkin State Park at sunrise”; 6 x 8.75
1998-99; dtd cvr; clr photo “Hiking in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness”; 4.5 x 8.75
1999-2000; dtd cvr; clr photo “Pompeys Pillar and the Yellowstone River”; 4.5 x 8.75
2001-02; dtd cvr; clr photo “Floating the ‘wild and scenic’ Missouri River”; 4.5 x 8.75
2002-03; dtd cvr; clr photo of 2 hikers with toddler; 4.5 x 8.75
2003-04; dtd cvr; clr photo “White Cliffs along the Wild and Scenic Missouri River”; 4.5 x 8.75
[2 known versions: { } and {Second Printing}]
2005-06; dtd cvr; 4 color photos (“Lewis & Clark statue, teepees, Pompeys Pillar, diorama”); 4.5 x 9
2006: dtd cvr: 4 clr photos (“Missouri River Breaks, Jefferson River, Yellowstone River, statue”); 4.5 x 9
2007-08; dtd cvr; clr photo of cowboy silhouette with ranch in bkgrd; 4 x 8.5
2009; dtd cprt; clr photo of “Glacier National Park’s Going to the Sun Road”; 4 x 8.5
[2 known versions: { } and {“Version 2” by copyright inside}]
2011; dtd cprt; clr photo of “Beargrass, Glacier National Park”; 4 x 8.5
2013; dtd cprt; clr photo of field of yellow flowers; 4 x 8.5
2016; dtd cprt; clr photo of lake, sky & mtns; 4 x 8.5