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1943 Map of Newman

Name: 1943 Topographic Map of Newman
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1949
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1949

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The arid ranching landscape of the New Mexico-Texas borderlands appears here as surveyed in 1940, characterized by isolated homesteads and livestock wells. A constellation of family names defines the region, including the Petit Ranch, Trueblood Ranch, and Duderstadt Ranch, alongside several others that point to the cattle operations active in the mid-20th century. Education in these sprawling grasslands was anchored at the Blythe Sch, located near the Quirse Ranch.

The Southern Pacific railroad cuts through the southeastern corner, connecting the small settlements of Hueco and Newman. To the north and west, the topography rises sharply toward the Organ Mts and Franklin Mountains, while the plains are marked by vital water sources like Old Coe Lake and Pit Tank. Military activity is evident in the western portion of the sheet, where the Dona Ana Target Range and parts of Fort Bliss occupy the terrain.