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2009 Map of Elbing

Name: 2009 Topographic Map of Elbing
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2009
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2009

About this map

Harvey County East Park Lake serves as a central geographic anchor for this portion of the Kansas plains, surrounded by a cluster of named recreation sites including Crown Point, Needle Point, Lake View Landing, and Catfish Point. The landscape is largely defined by the agricultural grid and the winding course of the East Branch Whitewater Creek, which flows southward through the center of the quadrangle.

Settlement patterns in the early 21st century remain focused around the community of Elbing on the eastern edge and the residential development at Walton Landing near the lake. The presence of the Mission Cemetery provides a point of interest for genealogists tracing local family roots in this rural corridor. Several smaller waterways, including Gypsum Creek and Dry Creek, drain the surrounding farmland, reflecting the area's natural hydrology within the larger Whitewater River watershed.