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1955 Map of Bishop Ranch

Name: 1955 Topographic Map of Bishop Ranch
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1956
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1956

About this map

Bishop Ranch and the Cordes-Oberlander Ranch anchor this mid-century survey of the high plains in Bent County. The landscape is defined by the critical management of water in an arid environment, evidenced by the sprawling Adobe Creek Reservoir in the northwest and the infrastructure of the Fort Lyon Canal and Fort Lyon Levee to the south.

Industry and navigation across the territory are marked by numerous scattered Windmills and specific extraction sites like a Inactive Quarry. The surveyed grid is punctuated by local transit routes such as Mulberry Road and Fourteenth Lane North, which provide a look at the rural section lines and homestead locations before further modernization. The presence of a Gas Well and high-elevation points like Clark VABM 4350 suggest a land utilized for both ranching and early resource exploration.