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1918 Map of Barwise School

Name: 1918 Topographic Map of Barwise School
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1918
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1918

About this map

Barwise School and Sunshine School serve as primary landmarks in this 1915 survey of northern Wichita County, where rural education was central to the dispersed farming community. The landscape is defined by a dendritic network of drainages, including the North Fork Buffalo Creek, Long Creek, and the uniquely named Tenth Cavalry Creek. These waterways carve through the terrain, dictating the placement of early travel routes.

Transportation corridors like the Fort Worth and Denver City Road and the Electra and Wichita Falls Road reflect the regional connectivity between growing oil and agricultural hubs. The presence of benchmarks and well-defined property boundaries indicates a period of formal land organization as the area transitioned from open prairie to established homesteads. Surveyors R.H. Reineck, D.H. Watson, and C.A. Ecklund recorded the topography just as the regional infrastructure was being solidified.