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1951 Map of Living Springs

Name: 1951 Topographic Map of Living Springs
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1952
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1952

About this map

Living Springs Ranch and the nearby Living Springs settlement serve as the primary landmarks in this 1951 study of the Colorado plains. Located within the Missouri River Basin development area, the landscape is defined by its drainage network, where Kiowa Creek and Comanche Creek carve paths through the rolling terrain. The presence of the Henrylyn Canal (Abandoned) in the northwest corner suggests early twentieth-century attempts at large-scale irrigation that had already fallen into disuse by mid-century.

Technological infrastructure of the early Cold War era is evident in the CAA Beacon located south of the ranch, likely serving air traffic along the central plains corridor. The map reveals a highly dispersed ranching economy, marked by numerous Windmill sites and silos required for water management and grain storage in a region where smaller tributaries like Wolf Creek and Long Draw are seasonally critical.