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2015 Map of Rice

Name: 2015 Topographic Map of Rice
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2015
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2015

About this map

The Republican River winds through the northern half of this Cloud County landscape, shaping a wide valley defined by its tributaries and the small settlements of Rice and Cook. The terrain transitions from the river bottom into the dissected uplands of central Kansas, where Twin Mounds stands as a prominent topographical landmark in the southeast. A network of rural section-line roads, such as Union Rd and Oak Rd, connects scattered farmsteads and a series of community burial grounds including Gotland Cem and Rice Cem.

South of the river, the landscape is drained by Plum Cr and Oak Cr, which feed into the larger river system. The small community of Huscher sits near the southern boundary, anchoring a rural agricultural district. This survey documents the intersection of natural drainage patterns and the established township-and-range grid system, preserving the locations of family-named sites like Nelson Cem and Green Mound Cem within the local prairie environment.