2018 Map of Sidney

About this map

Sidney serves as the focal point of this Fremont County landscape, its grid of streets including Cass St and Douglas St situated atop the high ground before the terrain drops into the bottomlands to the west. The map reveals an exceptionally dense distribution of family and community burial grounds across the loess hills, from Sidney Cem at the town's edge to the more remote Lovelady Cem and Means Cem to the south. This concentration of rural cemeteries suggests a long-established pattern of family homesteads throughout the region. To the west, the landscape is defined by an extensive drainage network designed for agriculture, featuring Main Ditch Number 6, Lateral Number 8, and Lateral Number 10. These man-made channels contrast with the natural winding course of the Nishnabotna River in the southeast and the seasonal flow through Militia Hollow.