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1970 Map of Culbertson SE

Name: 1970 Topographic Map of Culbertson SE
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1972
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1972

About this map

Driftwood Creek meanders deeply through the rural borderlands of Nebraska and Kansas, carving a winding path through the high plains. Surveyed in 1970, this landscape is defined by its drainage networks, where Elm Creek and Ledge Creek feed into the broader valley system. The area represents a transition from the agricultural uplands of Logan and Driftwood townships into the broken terrain of Tipton Canyon and East Oak Canyon.

Evidence of early 20th-century rural life is preserved in the location of Grove Cem on the northern bluffs and the solitary Drill Hole in the northeastern reaches. The map documents the precise jurisdictional boundary of the Nebraska-Kansas state line, illustrating how township and county borders like those of Hitchcock and Red Willow counties align with the sectional survey grid across this semi-arid terrain.