1954 Map of Bartlett

About this map

Bartlett serves as the primary hub of this Wheeler County landscape, established near the junction of Range 10 West and Range 11 West. The map reveals a rural economy shaped by the drainage of Beaver Creek and the expansive Buffalo Flats, where windmills and a Flowing Well point to the critical importance of water management in the Nebraska Sandhills. In the southern portion of the sheet, the village infrastructure includes a Church, the Bartlett Cemetery, and a prominent Water Tank. To the north, the small settlement of Cumminsville sits along the section lines, representing the dispersed nature of early High Plains communities. This document, based on 1950s field checks with 1980s photorevisions, preserves the specific placement of farmsteads and rural roads before the consolidation of modern land use.