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1985 Map of Clay Center

Name: 1985 Topographic Map of Clay Center
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1985
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1985

About this map

The Republican River and Solomon River valleys dominate this 1980s landscape, illustrating the agricultural and water-management patterns of North Central Kansas. The eastern edge is defined by the expansive Milford Lake, where the shoreline reaches past Wakefield and the former site of Broughton. These waterways served as the primary conduits for regional growth, supporting a network of small grain-handling towns like Minneapolis, Miltonvale, and Glasco.

Away from the river bottoms, the terrain rises toward distinctive landmarks like Table Mounds and Tobyne Hill. The map meticulously records the infrastructure of the era, from the Clay Center Muni Airport to the numerous quarries and a Sandpit scattered across the plains. For those researching the region's environmental history, the Ottawa County State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area provides a look at conserved prairie and wetland habitats as they existed in the mid-1980s.