1972 Map of Clarkville SW

About this map

Red Willow Community Center serves as a lone social focal point in this expansive high plains landscape within Yuma County. Surveyed in the early 1970s, the terrain is defined by a dendritic network of intermittent drainage ways, including Red Willow Creek, Rock Creek, and Surveyor Creek, which carve shallow depressions across the plateau. The map reveals an area dominated by large-scale agricultural divisions and infrastructure, notably the utility Substa and numerous wells scattered throughout the sections. This layout reflects the post-war intensification of groundwater-dependent farming on the eastern plains, where the grid of section-line roads provides the primary structure for movement between isolated homesteads and seasonal watercourses like Coyote Creek.