1889 Map of Larned
USGS Topo · Published 1957About this map
Larned serves as the focal point of this late nineteenth-century landscape, situated where the Pawnee River meets the Arkansas River. The region’s development is dictated by the arrival of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, which tracks alongside the major waterways, and the Missouri Pacific Railway cutting across the northeastern corner. These rail lines supported a network of emerging small settlements such as Rush Centre, Nekoma, and Garfield. The map reveals a strictly gridded prairie transition, where the wide alluvial valleys of Walnut Creek and Ash Creek provided the primary corridors for early Kansas settlement. This survey documents the area before intensive agricultural modification, showing the relationship between the natural drainage of Big Coon Creek and the township plats that define the political boundaries of Pawnee and Rush counties.
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