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2011 Map of Liberal

Name: 2011 Topographic Map of Liberal
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2011
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2011

About this map

The town of Liberal anchors this 2011 survey, situated within a landscape shaped by both agriculture and conservation near the Missouri-Kansas border. The area is defined by the headwaters of the Dry Wood Creek system, including East Fork Dry Wood Creek and the meandering East Drywood Creek. These waterways drain a prairie landscape where high points like Haake Mound provide relief from the surrounding agricultural grid. To the southwest, the preserved grasslands of Prairie State Park contrast with the settled clusters of Mulberry, Burgess, and Fuller.

Genealogists can identify several distinct burial grounds, including Liberal Cemetery, Rosebank Cemetery, and the northern Leroy Cemetery. Smaller named locales such as Ardath and Last Chance illustrate the early 21st-century settlement patterns in Barton County. The map provides a precise layout of the rural road network, from NW 40th Rd to the various lanes that follow section lines between the many creek branches like Bitter Creek and Fleck Creek.