Hell Creek and Buffalo Creek define the drainage of this High Plains landscape in northeastern Kit Carson County. The map reveals a strictly regulated section-line grid system, where travel is dictated by a network of rural routes such as County Road JJ and County Road GG. This 2010 survey illustrates the vast agricultural tracts of eastern Colorado, where the occasional depression and intermittent stream break the flat geometry of the land. Aside from the named waterways, the topography is characterized by a sparse, open character typical of the region's ranching and dryland farming areas. The layout of roads like County Rd-11 and County Rd-12 demonstrates how late-twentieth and early-twenty-first-century infrastructure continues to follow the original Public Land Survey System boundaries.
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1954 · Limon
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1957 · Limon
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1958 · Limon
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1977 · Cope SE
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1977 · Anton SE
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1977 · Cope SW
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1979 · Seibert NE
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1979 · Flagler
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1979 · Flagler NE
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1979 · Seibert NW
USGS Topo · 1:24,000