1956 Map of Antero Reservoir NE

About this map

The South Fork Platte River meanders through the northwest corner of this Park County landscape, which by the mid-1950s was defined more by its past than its present. The map records a significant shift in rural Colorado land use, with several sites of former settlement explicitly marked as defunct. Ranching history is central to this quadrangle, though only the Poyner Ranch remains active in this survey. Other family landmarks, including Weber Ranch, Jamestown Ranch, and Oakley Ranch, are noted as abandoned. The loss of community infrastructure is evident at the Pleasant Valley Sch (Aban'd), while the industrial history of the region is traced by an Old Railroad Grade and an Abandoned Ditch that follow the natural drainage of Agate Creek. Water remains a critical feature of the terrain, from Antelope Spring to the various ephemeral springs that sustain the high prairie.