The C Bar Oil Field defines this industrial landscape in Crane County, where a dense network of service roads and pipeline corridors crisscrosses the West Texas scrub. This early twenty-first-century survey illustrates the intensive infrastructure required for petroleum extraction, showing how the land has been partitioned for energy production. Amidst this grid of extraction sites, the J Bar Ranch and its associated J-Bar Ranch Airport represent the enduring presence of large-scale ranching operations that often coexist with the oil industry in this region. Access to these remote reaches is provided by a hierarchy of routes, including FM 1601 N and the intersection of Ranch Rd 1233 with several local thoroughfares like Katie Lea Rd and Key Road 10.
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1928 · Crane
USGS Topo · 1:125,000
1954 · Pecos
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1957 · Pecos
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1964 · Metz
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1964 · Doodle Bug Well
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1964 · Penwell SW
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1964 · Penwell
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1964 · Penwell SE
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1964 · Clark Brothers Ranch
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1974 · Tubbs Corner
USGS Topo · 1:24,000