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1968 Map of Palmer

Name: 1968 Topographic Map of Palmer
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1969
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1969

About this map

The town of Palmer anchors the southeastern corner of this Kansas landscape, situated where the Missouri Pacific railroad cuts across the prairie. The geography is defined by a dense network of drainage systems, including the meandering Parsons Creek and its East Branch, alongside Peats Creek and Spring Creek. These waterways carve through the agricultural townships of Strawberry, Sheridan, and Linn, illustrating a late-1960s rural pattern of isolated farmsteads and schoolhouses.

Local history and genealogy are preserved through small community landmarks such as Immanuel Sch and two distinct burial sites, Reiter Cem and St Paul Cem. The era's industrial infrastructure is visible in the prominent pipelines that traverse the rolling terrain from north to south, cutting a straight path across the natural curves of the creek valleys. This survey, based on 1965 aerial photography, provides a detailed look at the rural intersection of the Washington and Clay county lines just before modern agricultural consolidation.