2013 Map of Stonington

About this map

Stonington sits at the intersection of a vast grid of section roads in this high-plains landscape of Baca County. The settlement serves as the primary focal point of the quadrangle, anchored by the Stonington Cem to the south. The terrain is defined by the ephemeral drainages of Sand Arroyo Creek in the north and the meandering North Fork Cimarron River which carves through the southern sections. This 2013 survey illustrates the enduring township-and-range surveying system, with a dense network of numbered county routes such as CO Road 50 and CO Road X that facilitate movement between agricultural parcels. The geographical layout reflects the late twentieth and early twenty-first-century reliance on this precise road network to connect remote ranching and farming operations within the southeastern corner of Colorado.