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1900 Map of Lakin

Name: 1900 Topographic Map of Lakin
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1900
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1900

About this map

The Arkansas River corridor serves as the primary artery for settlement and industry in this turn-of-the-century survey. The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe R. R. runs parallel to the water, connecting the stations at Lakin, Hartland, and Deerfield. This transportation network is clearly separated from the southern plains by a prominent band of Sand Hills, which defines the local topography between the Arkansas and the southern drainages.

Further south, the landscape transitions into a grid of surveyed townships where early settlements like Ulysses and Shockey are established. The map documents the vital role of water access in High Plains development, showing the North Fork Cimarron River and Bear Creek as they cut through Sherman and Thomas townships. These features provide a look at the early civil organization of southwestern Kansas before many smaller locales like Warrendale and Conductor were subsumed by later county realignments.