2016 Map of Carmen

About this map

Carmen and Aline anchor this section of Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, where the landscape is defined by a dense network of sectional roads and meandering watercourses. The drainage of Eagle Chief Cr and its tributaries, including Spring Cr, cuts through the agricultural plains, creating a distinct riparian pattern against the rigid grid of the Public Land Survey System. For genealogists and local historians, the map is remarkably dense with fraternal and community burial sites, including the Carmen Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cem, the Eastern Star Cem, and Pleasant Ridge Cem. These sites, along with Solf Cem and Eagle Chief Cem, provide a clear spatial record of the early 20th-century social fabric and the dispersed rural populations that once centered around these townships. Further south, Big Timber Lakes E and Big Timber Lakes W offer a rare shift in the terrain's hydrology.