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1971 Map of Hopewell

Name: 1971 Topographic Map of Hopewell
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1974
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1974

About this map

Pratt Sandhills State Wildlife Management Area dominates the southwestern corner of this survey, representing a significant landscape preservation effort in central Kansas during the early 1970s. The terrain transitions from the protected sandhills into productive energy and agricultural lands, defined by an active Oil and Gas Field and scattered oil wells across the townships of Clear Creek and Albano.

Social and historical markers are concentrated near the settlement of Hopewell, which sits adjacent to Hopewell Cem and a Radio Tower. An Indian Treaty Boundary cuts across the lower sections of the map, while the path of an Old Railroad Grade and the winding Rattlesnake Creek suggest the evolution of transportation and water access in this prairie region. Genealogists can also locate Pleasant Plain Ch and Byers Cem in the southeastern portion of the quadrangle.