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2022 Map of Copeland NE

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

USGS Topo · Published 2022

About this map

Agricultural patterns and the Public Land Survey System define this section of Gray County, Kansas. The landscape is structured by a methodical grid of rural routes, including alphabetical east-west roads such as S Rd, T Rd, and V Rd, intersected by numbered north-south corridors like Co Rd 4 and Co Rd 6. This layout illustrates the late 20th-century approach to managing large-scale prairie farming and land division in the High Plains.

The area is divided into several townships, including t26s r30w and t27s r29w, where the lack of named settlements emphasizes the purely industrial and agricultural nature of the modern Kansas landscape. Small, unnamed water features and depressions punctuate the terrain between W Rd and X Rd, providing a detailed look at the localized drainage and topography of the region as it existed in the early 2020s.