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1893 Map of Albany

Name: 1893 Topographic Map of Albany
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1918
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1918

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The Santa Fe Trail and Texas Trail dominate this 1890s reconnaissance of the High Plains, illustrating a landscape defined by historic cattle and trade routes near the Colorado Kansas Boundary Line. Early frontier outposts like Kline Ranche and the small settlement of Albany appear as isolated hubs in a vast drainage basin feeding into Plum Creek and Butte Creek.

South of the boundary between Prowers and Baca counties, the settlement of Minneapolis sits near Horse Creek, while distinctive landmarks such as East Hill and Butte Springs provided essential water and orientation for travelers moving through these grasslands. This survey, conducted by R. B. Marshall just as the frontier era was closing, records the exact positions of these remote ranches and crossings before many were superseded by modern highways.