
The high plains borderland between Colorado and Kansas is defined here by the winding course of S Ladder Cr, which cuts through the arid landscape of Colony Township. This survey illustrates a sparsely populated agricultural and ranching environment where the state line and county boundaries for Cheyenne, Wallace, and Greeley intersect. The land is organized by a strictly defined grid of rural routes, including descriptively named paths like Dusty Rd and Bumpy Rd, alongside more established thoroughfares like Arrowhead Rd and Thirteen Mile Rd. These roads provide the primary infrastructure for the scattered homesteads and farming operations that characterize this region of the Great Plains, where natural water sources like S Ladder Cr remain the central geographic features in an otherwise surveyed and sectioned territory.
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1892 · Cheyenne Wells
USGS Topo · 1:125,000
1894 · Cheyenne Wells
USGS Topo · 1:125,000
1954 · Lamar
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1955 · Scott City
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1958 · Lamar
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1958 · Scott City
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1959 · Weskan
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1968 · Sharon Springs 3 NW
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1969 · Arapahoe SE
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1969 · Cheyenne Wells 4 NE
USGS Topo · 1:24,000