2022 Map of McCracken Branch

About this map

White Rock Creek and its many tributaries, including North Branch White Rock Creek and the eponymous McCracken Branch, carve a complex drainage pattern across this section of the Kansas plains. The landscape is defined by the rigid North American Public Land Survey System, where a grid of section lines and rural routes like 80 Road and AA Road overlay the natural contours of the Republican River watershed. This intersection of natural hydrology and human geometry is punctuated by remote rural burial grounds, including Webb Hill Cemetery on the eastern edge and Pleasant Plains Cemetery to the south. These small, scattered landmarks, along with Oriole Cemetery, serve as quiet markers of the early agrarian families who settled the divide between the Pawnee Creek and the headwaters of the Penny Creeks.