2013 Map of Ritzville SE

About this map

Ritzville serves as the focal point for this survey of the high plains in Adams County, where the transition from town streets to a vast agricultural grid is immediate. The landscape is defined by its rectilinear road network, with routes like E Weber Rd and N Benzel Rd carving out large sections of farmland. A notable break in this geometry occurs along the McElroy Coulee, a natural drainage feature that meanders across the central terrain. Water management is a key theme for the area's geography, evidenced by the Sheep Springs Reservoir and the course of Cow Cr in the southeast. In the southern portion of the sheet, the settlement of Hillcrest provides a secondary point of habitation amongst the grain fields and homesteads connected by rural corridors such as Whittlesey Rd and E Roloff Rd.