2018 Map of Burr Oak NW

About this map

White Rock Creek and its tributary North Branch White Rock Creek define the southern drainage of this Jewell County landscape, where the agricultural grid meets a network of winding waterways. The terrain is etched by numerous streams, including Ash Creek, Burr Oak Creek, and Lost Creek, which cut through the sections of the Public Land Survey System. For genealogists and local historians, the placement of Highland Cemetery, Oak Creek Cemetery, and Providence Cemetery provides essential markers of early settlement and community centers within the rural townships. A sparse network of gravel roads such as Diamond Road, Birch Road, and W Road connects these landmarks, tracing the same section lines established during the nineteenth-century survey of the Kansas frontier.