2022 Map of Antelope Creek SE

About this map

Antelope Cr defines the drainage pattern of this high plains landscape in eastern Washington County, flowing north through a series of shallow basins. The map illustrates a strictly regimented agricultural grid where the Public Land Survey System dictated every road and property line. This section of the Colorado plains is organized by a dense network of county roads, including north-south corridors like Co Rd X and Co Rd W, and east-west routes such as Co Rd 17 and Co Rd 15. The terrain is marked by seasonal wetlands and depressions, characteristic of the shortgrass prairie environment before it slopes toward larger river systems. Historically, these section-line roads served as the lifelines for homesteaders and dryland farmers, maintaining a spatial order that has remained largely unchanged for over a century.