1966 Map of Elsmore

About this map

Savonburg and Elsmore anchor this southeastern Kansas landscape during the mid-1960s, a region defined by its intersection of agricultural prairie and fossil fuel extraction. The Missouri - Kansas - Texas railroad cuts through the terrain, serving the local economy where numerous Oil Wells and Gas Wells are scattered across the townships. A significant historical marker, the Old Indian Treaty Boundary, runs east-to-west across the lower third of the quadrangle, preserving a trace of early territorial divisions beneath the modern grid of sections.