Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Homesteaders Gap Oil Field

Locator: 44809B.  

See this note.

NDIC has approved new name for Squaw Gap oil field. Now Homesteaders Gap oil field. The Bismarck Tribune today, behind a paywall.

Already updated at wiki.

A point of interest:

A local independent telephone exchange was inaugurated on December 15, 1971, with an NBC broadcast of a first phone call from Squaw Gap to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz in Washington D.C
The community was one of the last to obtain landline telephone service in the continental United States. (Iowa Hill, California lost its service in the 1960s, but regained it in 2010.)