2010 Map of Lodgepole SW

About this map

Czech Slovensky Cemetery and Swankee Cemetery sit among the high plains of Logan County, marking the cultural footprint of early immigrant families in this Nebraska-Colorado borderland. The landscape is defined by a strictly rectangular grid of rural routes, including Road 137 and Road 139, which cut across the natural drainage patterns of the region. The intermittent flows of Cow Creek and Cottonwood Creek wander through the surveyed sections, providing the only break in the geometric regularity of the section lines. This area represents a deeply established agricultural district where the placement of small community burial grounds provides some of the few remaining links to the specific families who settled this corner of the High Plains.