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1955 Map of Pratt

Name: 1955 Topographic Map of Pratt
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1973
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1973

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The Arkansas River and Rattlesnake Creek define the hydraulic character of this South Central Kansas landscape, which sits at a mid-century transition between traditional agriculture and growing infrastructure. The map reveals a dense network of early rail lines including the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific, which connect dozens of grain-stop settlements like Zenith, Belpre, and Partridge.

Social hubs such as the Blue Ridge Community House are documented alongside established county seats like Medicine Lodge and Kingman. This 1955 survey, updated in the late 1960s, provides an exceptionally clear view of the region's transport evolution, showing the establishment of major corridors like US Highway 54 as they began to supersede the aging rail spurs that originally founded these plains towns.