2016 Map of Mouth of Shaw Creek

About this map

The Saline River meanders across the northern portion of this Trego County landscape, carving through a region defined by its wide, tiered plateaus and deep drainage draws. A prominent geographical feature is the Mouth of Shaw Creek, where the northward-flowing Shaw Creek joins the river system. The terrain is structured by a rigid section-line grid of rural roads, including B Rd and C Rd in the north and H Rd and I RD to the south. This pattern of human development reflects the late 20th and early 21st-century agricultural organization of Western Kansas, where large-scale land divisions are bisected by natural waterways like E Spring Cr and Spring Cr. The map captures the intersection of natural hydrology and the persistent survey grid that governs the High Plains.