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1963 Map of Lamb

Name: 1963 Topographic Map of Lamb
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1978
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1978

About this map

Fort Morgan serves as the industrial and civic anchor of this Morgan County landscape during the early 1960s, where the expansion of the Fort Morgan Oil Field defines much of the surrounding terrain. The map documents an extensive network of Oil Wells, Gas Wells, and a central Gasoline Plant, illustrating the era's intensive energy extraction. This industrial activity is superimposed on a traditional agricultural foundation sustained by the Bijou Canal and Badger Creek.

Transportation infrastructure reflects both historic and modern routes, from the tracks of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad to the early motoring path of the Old Dld Road. Local centers like Lamb and Moseley appear alongside civic landmarks such as City Hall and the Athletic Field, providing genealogists and local historians with a clear view of the community's structural layout before late-century development altered the prairie.