1970 Map of Sharon Springs 3 SE

About this map

White Woman Creek meanders across the southern portion of this High Plains landscape in Greeley County, defining the drainage patterns of the western Kansas steppe. The 1970 field check reveals a largely rural expanse divided into the townships of Colony and Tribune, where the land is organized by the Public Land Survey System into a grid of sections. Resource extraction and local infrastructure are marked by several wells and a series of industrial sites along the creek bed, including a Sandpit and a Gravel Pit. These features, along with the numerous elevation benchmarks and small bridges like BR 3698, reflect a landscape managed for agriculture and local transit at the start of the 1970s. The topographic detail captures the subtle drainage draws and ridges that characterize this part of the state before modern large-scale center-pivot irrigation became ubiquitous.