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2019 Map of Pursley House

Name: 2019 Topographic Map of Pursley House
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2019
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2019

About this map

Pursley House serves as a lone namesake landmark in this remote corner of West Texas where King, Dickens, Kent, and Stonewall counties meet. The landscape is defined by a complex network of erosional drainage, with major watercourses like Croton Cr and its northern branch, N Croton Cr, cutting through the terrain. The presence of Beggs Ranch Airport highlights the importance of private aviation in managing these expansive ranching lands.

A series of distinctively named canyons, including Bird Pouroff Canyon, John Bell Canyon, and the curiously paired North Pole Canyon and South Pole Canyon, demonstrate the deep dissection of the local topography. Human infrastructure is limited to ranch roads such as Co RD 371 and Co RD 176, while water management for livestock is evident at sites like Getaway Tank and Sage Tank. This area remains a sparsely populated landscape of draws and forks, where the drainage of W Fork Dove Cr and E Fork Dove Cr eventually feeds into the larger regional basins.