The vast, geometric ranchlands of Andrews County are defined by a high-desert grid of service roads and the prominent diagonal of US Highway 385. This landscape, characterized by ephemeral wetlands and depressions known as playas, reveals the structured layout of West Texas oil and gas fields where secondary roads like Sw 8000 and Se 8000 carve through the scrub. The scarcity of named settlements on this particular sheet underscores the scale of industrial and agricultural operations in the Permian Basin during the mid-2010s, where land use is dictated by the extraction of resources rather than dense residential development.
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1954 · Hobbs
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1958 · Hobbs
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1963 · Andrews
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1967 · North Cowden
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1968 · Baird Lake
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1968 · Gardendale NW
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1968 · Clabber Hill Ranch
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1968 · Hackberry Lake
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1968 · Gardendale
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1971 · Five Wells Ranch SE
USGS Topo · 1:24,000