1975 Map of Quanah NW

About this map

The Red River creates a wide, meandering boundary across this landscape, captured in a 1975 orthophoto that emphasizes the agricultural grid of southwestern Oklahoma. This advance print provides a rare photographic look at the land patterns just south of Eldorado, where the cultivated fields of Jackson County meet the brushy, shifting margins of the river bottom. The path of Sandy Creek cuts diagonally across the central plains, its seasonal flow marked by distinctive vegetation that stands out against the surrounding farmland. Researchers can observe the mid-century layout of rural roads and section lines that define the region's cattle and cotton country. Because this document uses aerial imagery rather than traditional topographic lines, it preserves a literal view of the ground cover and farmsteads as they existed during the mid-1970s.