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1972 Map of Higgins South

Name: 1972 Topographic Map of Higgins South
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1974
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1974

About this map

The High Plains landscape of the Texas Panhandle is defined by the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad corridor and the industrial footprint of the Feldman Oil and Gas Field. Centered on the town of Higgins, this early 1970s survey captures a community deeply integrated with the energy and transportation sectors. The town itself features a Municipal Airfield and a prominent Water Tank, while the surrounding prairie is dotted with a network of pipelines and numerous oil wells.

Drainage patterns like Commission Creek and Little Robe Creek cut through the terrain, providing geographical contrast to the grid-like precision of the petroleum infrastructure and the Lipscomb and Hemphill county lines. Traces of smaller settlements or transit points like Starbuck appear alongside resource extraction sites including various Gravel Pits, illustrating the rural economy just east of the Oklahoma state line.