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1963 Map of Morehead

Name: 1963 Topographic Map of Morehead
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1964
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1964

About this map

The Old Indian Treaty Boundary slices diagonally across this Kansas landscape, a visible reminder of nineteenth-century land divisions that preceded the current township grid. The settlement of Morehead sits at the junction of four counties — Wilson, Neosho, Montgomery, and Labette — serving as a crossroads for the local agricultural and extraction economies. This 1963 survey shows an area heavily influenced by resource development, with numerous Oil Wells peppered across the townships of Newark and Shiloh, alongside a Quarry near the Neosho County line.

Community life centers on rural institutions like Harrison Ch, Big Four Sch, and several family cemeteries including Star Cem and Plainfield Cem. Transportation is dominated by competing rail lines, with the St Louis-San Francisco and the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe tracks providing vital connections for moving goods and people through the region. The drainage patterns of Drum Creek and Chetopa Creek provide the primary relief to the otherwise orderly section-line road network.