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1985 Map of Muleshoe

Name: 1985 Topographic Map of Muleshoe
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1992
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1992

About this map

The High Plains of the Texas Panhandle define this mid-1980s landscape, where the town of Muleshoe serves as a central hub at the junction of rail and road. The terrain is characterized by the ephemeral drainage systems of Running Water Draw and Blackwater Draw, which cut across a grid of agricultural sections. These seasonal watercourses, along with localized depressions like Coyote Lake and Baileyboro Lake, dictate the placement of smaller agrarian settlements such as Lazbuddie, Earth, and Springlake.

Detailed township and range lines reveal the orderly settlement pattern of the Llano Estacado. Communities like Oklahoma Lane and Sudan are connected by a network of rural routes that follow the cardinal directions, occasionally interrupted by the diagonal path of the railroad through Lariat and Muleshoe. This survey captures the region just as modern irrigation and land management had fully matured across the county lines of Parmer, Bailey, Lamb, and Castro.