2019 Map of Spade

About this map

Spade sits at the junction of FM 54 and FM 168 in a landscape defined by its rigid section lines and agricultural grid. This survey of the Texas High Plains illustrates a highly organized rural infrastructure, where a dense network of county roads like Co RD 247 and Co RD 307 facilitate the movement of goods across the Llano Estacado. The terrain is characterized by numerous small, ephemeral depressions or playas, typical of the southern plains region, which break the otherwise rectilinear pattern of farm-to-market roads. These natural features, interspersed among the systematic road system including FM 1072 and FM 2197, provide critical drainage and distinct environmental markers in a territory largely shaped by human engineering and intensive land use.