2019 Map of Clarkville SE

About this map

The High Plains of Yuma County are defined here by a geometric grid of rural routes, where Co Rd 54 and Co Rd 50 span the prairie between the Nebraska and Kansas borders. This agrarian landscape is anchored by the Pleasant Valley Methodist Church Cem, a vital point of interest for genealogists tracing early families in this corner of Colorado. The terrain is largely dominated by the drainage of Rock Cr., which meanders through the northwest, creating the only significant break in the otherwise orderly section lines of the Public Land Survey System. The map illustrates the 21st-century continuation of a settlement pattern established over a century ago, where life is organized around long-distance county roads and the seasonal flow of prairie creeks.