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1970 Map of Little River

Name: 1970 Topographic Map of Little River
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1972
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1972

About this map

The town of Little River serves as the hub of this Kansas landscape, where the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad tracks cut a diagonal path across the prairie. The settlement pattern here is closely tied to the water and rail network, with the village of Mitchell and the small cluster at Galt established along the transportation corridor. Near Galt, a Townhall and a Quarry mark the localized infrastructure of the era.

Energy production is a defining characteristic of the terrain, as evidenced by the Crawford Oil Field in the north and the Odessa Oil Field to the east. The drainage of the Little River and Horse Creek eventually meets the larger Arkansas River in the southeast corner of the sheet. This 1970s record illustrates a transition in land use, showing the coexistence of traditional rail-side agriculture and the expanding footprint of the oil industry.