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1963 Map of Crater Ridge

Name: 1963 Topographic Map of Crater Ridge
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1964
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1964

About this map

Petroleum and ranching infrastructure define this corner of Live Oak County in the early 1960s. The landscape is marked by the Burnett Oil and Gas Field, alongside the McNeil Oil Field and McNeil South Oil Field, illustrating the intensive mineral extraction of the era. These industrial sites are interspersed with family-named water sources essential for livestock, such as Jacobs Tank and Jacobs Windmill.

The terrain is characterized by prominent elevations like Crater Ridge and Buck Ridge, which overlook a network of seasonal drainages including Ramirena Creek and Long Hollow. A single Roadside Park provides a rare point of public utility in an area otherwise dominated by extensive Private holdings and utility corridors, including a prominent Pipeline that traverses the southern reaches of the quadrangle.