1970 Map of Fort McKavett NE

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Rocky Creek winds through the limestone uplands of the Edwards Plateau in this 1970 survey of the Menard and Schleicher County border. The landscape is defined by the extraction of natural resources and large-scale ranching, with numerous labels for Oil Well and Gas Well sites alongside a network of Gravel Pit operations. Isolated outposts such as White Ranch and Russell Ranch punctuate the drainage basins, while livestock reliance on scattered water sources is evidenced by the named Ninemile Waterhole. The map effectively captures the transition from the rugged drainage of Brown Hollow and Milligan Draw to the high ground of Round Hill. These features reveal a mid-century Texas backcountry where the traditional ranching economy was increasingly overlaid by the infrastructure of the energy industry, connected by a web of unimproved roads and fence lines.