2009 Map of Oakley SW

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North Branch Hackberry Creek and its companion branches define the drainage of this Logan County landscape, where the high plains are segmented by a strictly linear grid of county roads. The settlement pattern is characterized by uniquely named locales such as Eagle Eye and Day Dream in the north, stretching down to Vista in the south. This 2009 survey by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a rural environment where land use is dictated by the hydrological reach of the Middle Branch Hackberry Creek and the South Branch Hackberry Creek. The arrangement of places like Cedar Crst and Broken Bow along these corridors suggests a sparse, ranch-oriented geography typical of the western Kansas plains at the start of the twenty-first century.