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2011 Map of McCarty Lake

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

USGS Topo · Published 2011

About this map

The Nebraska Sandhills in Garden County reveal a specialized landscape of drainage and depression in this 2011 survey. The terrain is defined by a series of northwest-to-southeast trending valleys, many bearing family names that suggest a history of ranching and settlement, including Tree Claim Valley, Scheffenburg Valley, and Lotspeich Valley. These basins are interspersed with numerous small lakes and marshes, such as Townsend Lake in the northwest and Galdon Lake in the southeast, which are critical water sources in this semi-arid region.

Infrastructure is sparse, consisting primarily of section-line roads and unpaved routes like Bingham Rd and Road 132. The spatial distribution of features like Windmill Valley and Jones Valley among the Wild Horse Flats illustrates the traditional land use patterns where names were assigned to specific pockets of productive land within the dunes. This map serves as a detailed record of the physical and cultural geography of the McCarty Lake quadrangle at the start of the 2010s.