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2022 Map of Columbus

Name: 2022 Topographic Map of Columbus
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2022
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2022

About this map

Columbus serves as the central hub of this Kansas landscape, anchored by the Cherokee County Court House and a significant cluster of local burial grounds. The city's grid is well-established, with thoroughfares like W Maple St and E Buckeye St framing the residential and civic core. Surrounding the town, a network of smaller communities such as Stippville, Skidmore, and Turck indicates a pattern of decentralized rural settlement connected by an extensive grid of section-line roads like NW Center Star Rd and NE Belleview Rd.

The physical geography is defined by the slow meander of Brush Creek and Shawnee Cr, which cut through the agricultural fields of Cherokee County. Genealogists will find particular value in the distribution of cemeteries across the township lines, from the large Columbus Cem and Park Cem near the city center to the more isolated Potters Field Cem and Lone Elm Cem to the north, which mark the passing generations of this southeastern Kansas prairie.