1968 Map of Plains SW

About this map

Morris, Fargo, and Mertilla townships define the open high plains of Southwest Kansas in this late 1960s survey. The landscape is marked by the boundary between Seward Co and Meade Co, where a sparse agricultural and industrial network emerges. Evidence of the region's energy economy is visible through multiple Oil Wells and a Drill Hole in the western sections, while a major Pipeline cuts diagonally across the northern portion of the quadrangle. The terrain, documented as West Plains, is characterized by scattered depressions and intermittent water features typical of the High Plains, illustrating the rural character of the area before modern intensified development. This map serves as a primary record of the infrastructure and land divisions in a period when planetable surveys were still being used to refine the topography of the Kansas panhandle region.