1981 Map of Arnold

About this map

Arnold sits at the center of this western Kansas landscape, a community defined by the path of the Missouri Pacific railroad and the surrounding agricultural grid. The map reveals a transition between the northern Franklin township and the southern Ohio and Nevada districts, where a complex network of ephemeral watercourses like Wild Horse Creek and Rattlesnake Creek cut through the high plains. Of particular interest to genealogists and local historians are the Amish Cem and the Arnold Cem, situated near active oil field developments that became a hallmark of the regional economy by the 1970s. The presence of numerous Sandpit sites and scattered Oil Well markers among the section lines illustrates the dual reliance on natural resource extraction and dryland farming during this era.