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1920 Map of Barnhart

Name: 1920 Topographic Map of Barnhart
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1965
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1965

About this map

Barnhart serves as the central hub of this West Texas survey, situated at the junction of the Kansas City Mexico and Orient railroad and early regional thoroughfares like Ozona Road. The landscape is defined by a series of prominent cattle operations, including the Slaughter Ranch and the Murphy Ranch, which speak to the area's established ranching economy in the years following the Great War.

Topography is dominated by the long drainage of Tepee Draw, which carves through the terrain toward the Irion and Crockett County boundary line. Researchers can trace the path of the Sheffield Road as it winds through the south, passing the isolated O 9 Ranch and the distinctive Twin Lakes. The map provides a clear picture of the early 20th-century transportation network that connected these remote ranching outposts to the rail line.