2022 Map of Selden NE

About this map

The high plains of Decatur County are defined here by a network of drainage basins and isolated pioneer burial sites. Three distinct cemeteries — Lund Church Cem, the Mennonite Cem, and Shibboleth Cem — serve as landmarks for genealogists tracing early settlement patterns in this rural Kansas landscape. The terrain is shaped by several watercourses including Big Timber Cr in the northeast and the confluence of N Fork Prairie Dog Cr and Prairie Dog Cr in the southeast. These creek valleys are connected by a grid of rural routes such as Co RD 352 and Co RD 348, which follow the section lines of the Public Land Survey System. The map documents a landscape primarily dedicated to agriculture, where the topography of the S Fork Sappa Cr basin dictates the placement of roads and farmstead locations.