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2017 Map of McCarty Lake

Name: 2017 Topographic Map of McCarty Lake
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2017
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2017

About this map

McCarty Lake and a dense network of seasonal basins define this portion of the Nebraska Sandhills. The landscape is a complex arrangement of dry valleys and isolated wetlands, where names like Wild Horse Flats and Hog Valley suggest a long history of ranching and livestock movement. Many of these features carry the surnames of early settlers, such as Scheffenburg Valley, Lotspeich Valley, and Warneke Valley, providing valuable geographic markers for genealogists tracing family landholdings in Garden County.

Transport is limited to rugged routes such as Bingham Rd, which cuts across the central depressions. The presence of numerous named water bodies, including Townsend Lake, Elk Lake, and E Kincaid Lake, illustrates the hydrologic character of the region, where low-lying valleys frequently intersect the water table. This 2017 survey details the township and range lines of t23n r42w and adjacent sections, showing how the land remains primarily divided by its natural topography rather than dense urban development.