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2009 Map of Alta Vista

Name: 2009 Topographic Map of Alta Vista
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2009
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2009

About this map

Alta Vista serves as the primary hub in this portion of Wabaunsee County, where the street grid is defined by Washington St and Monroe St near the railroad corridor. The surrounding landscape is a network of rural section-line roads and winding waterways, including the West Branch Mill Creek and several forks of Munkers Creek. This map captures a rural Kansas environment still centered on these small-town foundations and family cemeteries.

Genealogists and local historians can locate established burial grounds throughout the countryside, such as the Alta Vista Cemetery just south of town, and the more remote Beman Cemetery and Garfield Cemetery to the southeast. The naming of local thoroughfares like Mormon Trail Rd and Cable City Rd provides a link to the historical transit routes and vanished naming conventions that once defined this prairie region. The drainage patterns of the Middle Branch Munkers Creek and Wildcat Creek further illustrate the natural contours of the land between the high-ground ranching and farming tracts.