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1892 Map of Meade

Name: 1892 Topographic Map of Meade
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1906
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1906

About this map

The settlement of Meade serves as the focal point of this late-nineteenth-century landscape, positioned where the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad cuts a diagonal path across the High Plains. The region's early development is marked by a network of small outposts and post offices like Cash City, Fowler, and Jasper, many of which were tied to the seasonal flows of Crooked Creek and the Cimarron River.

A distinct transition in the terrain is visible as the flat expanses of the West Plains give way to more complex drainage patterns around Sand Creek and Shorts Creek. This 1890s survey by W. H. Herron and H. L. Baldwin Jr. documents the area just as the railroad was solidifying the economic future of towns like Minneola while leaving others, such as Atwater and Odee, as small agricultural nodes in the southwestern Kansas prairie.