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1964 Map of Dalton

Name: 1964 Topographic Map of Dalton
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1966
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1966

About this map

The Ninnescah River winds through the northern reaches of this Sumner County landscape, where the agricultural plains meet the infrastructure of mid-century Kansas. In the mid-1960s, the Kansas Turnpike cuts a modern diagonal across the terrain, accompanied by the Wellington Service Facility and the Wellington Interchange. The transition from old to new is evident in the survival of Pink Sch alongside industrial development like the Interchange Oil Field and the Rusk Oil Field.

Long-established rail lines, including the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and the Missouri Pacific, define the movement of goods through small settlements such as Dalton and Cicero. The mapping of the Sixty Seventh Principal Meridian provides a surveyor's backbone to the region, while natural drainages like Antelope Creek and Dry Creek continue to shape the rural township boundaries of Harmon, Avon, and Oxford.