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1897 Map of Caldwell

Name: 1897 Topographic Map of Caldwell
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1922
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1922

About this map

Caldwell serves as the dominant rail and commercial hub in this late nineteenth-century survey, situated just north of the Kansas Oklahoma Boundary Line. The landscape is defined by a dense lattice of competing railroads that transformed the prairie into a productive agricultural grid, with the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and the Missouri Pacific Railroad branching across numerous townships. Significant waterways like the Chikaskia River and the Ninnescah Riv. drain the terrain toward the south and east.

Local development is evident in the established townsites of Argonia, Conway Springs, and Bluff City, along with smaller stops like Runnymede and Freeport. The mapping of the Sixth standard parallel and various county boundaries, including those for Kingman, Sumner, Harper, and Sedgwick, illustrates the meticulous administrative organization of the region during this period of intensive settlement.