2009 Map of Russell Springs NE

About this map

Smoky Hill River winds across the southern reaches of this High Plains landscape in Logan County, Kansas. The drainage network is dominated by the northward-reaching Sixmile Creek and the companion terrain of Sixmile Gulch, which together define the local topography. This 2009 survey illustrates a rigid sectional grid of rural roads, many bearing distinctive names such as Seneca, Plains, and Rawhide. These thoroughfares, along with others like Ute and various numbered county roads, reveal the late 20th-century organization of the agricultural and ranching interior. The map captures a moment in the modern era of the Kansas plains, where the vast, open spaces are partitioned by a systematic road network that follows the section lines of the original land surveys.