1985 Map of Medicine Lodge

About this map

Medicine Lodge serves as the regional hub for this mid-1980s landscape, where the Medicine Lodge River carves a winding path through Barber County. The map documents a rural infrastructure defined by extensive rail networks, including the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and the Missouri Pacific lines that connect smaller prairie settlements like Attica and Sharon. A notable historical trace is the Old Indian Treaty Boundary, which cuts across the northern township lines, a reminder of nineteenth-century land partitions surviving into modern cartography.