1961 Map of Leedey

About this map

The Leedey townsite serves as the central hub of this Western Oklahoma landscape, positioned at the intersection of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas rail line. The terrain is defined by a dense network of drainages including Barnitz Creek and Quartermaster Creek, which cut through the red-soils country of the Dewey, Custer, and Roger Mills county borders. This era of the early 1960s captures the rural community structure before modern consolidation, evidenced by the distribution of country schools and houses of worship like the Liberty Center School and Center Chapel. Small water bodies such as Leedey Lake and Mabry Lake provide rare catchments in a region primarily drained by the wide Canadian River to the north. Numerous cemeteries, including Evergreen Cem and the New Herman Cem, offer valuable geographic anchors for genealogical research into the families that settled this portion of the Oklahoma panhandle's approach.