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1970 Map of Hanston

Name: 1970 Topographic Map of Hanston
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1971
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1971

About this map

Hanston sits at the northern edge of this Kansas landscape, where the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad tracks cut across the plains near the winding course of Buckner Creek. This 1970 snapshot of Hodgeman County reveals a region defined by its agricultural grid and the development of energy resources, with numerous wells scattered throughout the Marena Field and Sterling Field. The interplay between the natural meandering of waterways and the rigid section lines of the public land survey system is clearly visible here.

Local history is preserved in landmarks such as the St Anthony Cem and small settlements like Orwell to the south. The mapping of infrastructure, including the Osborne Bridge and Orwell Bridge over Saw Log Creek, provides essential detail for genealogists and historians tracing the movement of residents between rural farmsteads and early twentieth-century oil fields like the Saw Log Creek Oil Field.