2009 Map of Bird City South NW

About this map

High plains agriculture and isolated rural markers define this corner of Cheyenne County in the early twenty-first century. The landscape is organized by a rigid grid of section-line roads, including Co Rd M and Co Rd E, which facilitate movement between sparse farmsteads and the occasional watercourse like Sand Creek. This drainage system provides one of the few breaks in the geometric regularity of the terrain. For genealogists and local historians, the map serves as a primary record for two burial sites that anchor the area's pioneer heritage: Wheeler Cemetery in the north and Saint Pauls Cemetery to the south. These cemeteries remain as permanent points of reference amidst the vast, shifting seasonal cycles of the Kansas wheat belt, marking the resting places of the families who settled this northwestern reach of the state.