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1941 Map of Standart

Name: 1941 Topographic Map of Standart
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1969
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1969

About this map

Standart and the surrounding rangeland of Kinney County appear here during the early 1940s, characterized by a sprawling network of family-operated livestock operations. The landscape is defined by the drainage basins of Sycamore Creek and Pinto Creek, where numerous isolated outposts like Wardlaw Bros Ranch and Whitehead-Wardlaw Ranch managed the arid terrain. Education in this rural stretch was centered at the Mud Creek Sch, located near the Briggs Ranch.

Transportation infrastructure was critical to the region's economy, anchored by the Southern Pacific railroad and the Jefferson Pacific Memorial Highway, which provided the primary link between the Rio Grande valley and the interior. Notable water sources like Stricklin Spr and various tanks scattered across the map underscore the necessity of water management for the numerous ranches, including the Belcher Ranch and Gaebler Ranch, that populated this section of the Texas borderlands.