2016 Map of Hale Center SW

About this map

Center Plains Cem serves as a primary historical waypoint in this corner of the South Plains, situated along FM 179 in Hale County. The landscape is defined by an orderly grid of agricultural roads, such as E Hereford Rd and Ferguson Rd, which navigate a terrain pocketed with numerous small depressions and basins. This geometric layout reflects the systematic development of West Texas ranching and farming lands into the 21st century. The map traces the reach of several farm-to-market routes including FM 1914 and FM 1071, which connect the rural homesteads and fields across this high plateau. Genealogists and local historians can use these precise road alignments and family-named routes like Nix Rd to locate ancestral land tracts and the burial grounds that anchored these early 20th-century farming communities.