1964 Map of Burden

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The community of Burden serves as the focal point of this mid-1960s Cowley County survey, situated at the junction of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad and the local road network. The landscape is heavily defined by its subterranean resources, evidenced by the proliferation of named petroleum tracts such as the Frog Hollow East Oil Field, Turner North Oil Field, and Burden Oil Field. These industrial sites are interspersed with the agricultural and civic markers of the era, including the Fairgrounds on the eastern edge of town and several scattered rural burial grounds like Silver Creek Cem and Tisdale Cem. Hydrology is dominated by Timber Creek Lake in the northwest and the winding paths of Silver Creek and Plum Creek, which navigate the region's undulating prairie terrain.