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2009 Map of Sharon North

Name: 2009 Topographic Map of Sharon North
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2009
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2009

About this map

The town of Sharon sits at the southern edge of this Kansas landscape, serving as a hub for the surrounding agricultural plains. This late-aughts survey illustrates a region where the land is strictly partitioned by a network of rural roads with evocative local names such as Lone Tree Rd, Cedar Hills Rd, and Plum Thicket Rd. These routes follow the section lines of the Public Land Survey System, creating a rigid grid that is only interrupted by the meandering courses of Little Sandy Creek and Spring Creek.

Genealogists and local historians will find significant value in the documentation of the area's burial grounds, including Saint Boniface Cemetery located near the town center and Burgess Cemetery in the northeast. The southern corridor is dominated by the path of US Hwy 160 and Jefferson Ave, which link the settlement to the broader county. The map's detailed labeling of named rural ways, like Sandplum Rd and Blackmare Rd, provides a precise record of property access and rural development at this moment in the early 21st century.