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1969 Map of Fargo NW

Name: 1969 Topographic Map of Fargo NW
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1971
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1971

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Wolf Creek winds through the southern landscape of this Oklahoma survey, where the township of Fargo sits near the southeastern corner. The terrain is defined by the drainage basins of Eightmile Creek and Sixteenmile Creek, which carve through the high plains. Local life in the late 1960s centered around landmarks like Greenwood Ch and the nearby Sunset Cem.

Evidence of the local extractive economy appears in several Caliche Pits and numerous gas wells scattered across the townships of Greenwood, Woodrow, and Oleta. A small Landing Strip provides a point of aerial access to this rural region, while the surveyor's notes from 1968 and 1969 reveal a landscape of fence lines and unimproved roads, typical of the western Oklahoma cattle and gas country during this era.