2010 Map of Kress East

About this map

Kress and the smaller community of Finney anchor this agricultural section of Swisher County, where a rigid grid of farm-to-market roads and county lines organizes the high plains landscape. The region's heavy reliance on groundwater for irrigation is suggested by the presence of Well Rd and numerous localized depressions scattered across the fields. Major transportation routes like FM 145 and FM 400 cut through the geometric network of numbered and lettered county roads, such as Co Rd BB and Co Rd EE, which facilitate the movement of local harvest. The diagonal transit corridor through the western portion of the quadrangle contrasts with the otherwise orderly north-south and east-west orientation of the surrounding acreage.