2015 Map of Bird City South

About this map

Bird City anchors the northern edge of this High Plains landscape, where the town's street grid meets the expansive agricultural reaches of Cheyenne County. The survey illustrates the rigid precision of the Public Land Survey System, with a nearly perfect grid of local roads like Co RD M and Co RD 27 defining the section lines. This rural pattern is broken only by the natural drainage of Little Beaver Cr, which winds through the southeastern corner of the quadrangle. Local history and genealogy interests are represented by the Greisler Cem and Bressler Field, providing specific points of reference for families and land use in this western Kansas territory. The map effectively documents the intersection of human settlement and the natural prairie environment during the early 21st century.