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1950 Map of Hygiene

Name: 1950 Topographic Map of Hygiene
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1960
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1960

About this map

Hygiene serves as the focal point of this 1950s landscape, situated in a high-desert environment defined by an intricate network of irrigation engineering. The complexity of the local water system is evident in the numerous gravity-fed channels like the Rough and Ready Ditch and Oligarchy Ditch, which redirect flow from St Vrain Creek to support agriculture and a series of storage basins including Mc Call Lake and Clover Basin Reservoir.

Education and community history are recorded through the presence of several rural schoolhouses, some already marked as defunct by mid-century, such as Hygiene School (Aband) and Bashor School (Aband). To the west, the topography rises sharply at Rabbit Mountain and Table Mountain, providing a stark contrast to the flat, ditch-dependent farmsteads of the eastern plains. Transportation and industry are anchored by the Colorado and Southern (Burlington Route) and specialized sites like the Brickyard near Marnett.