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2015 Map of Thrall

Name: 2015 Topographic Map of Thrall
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2015
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2015

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Thrall and Burkett anchor this rural landscape along the boundary of Chase and Greenwood counties, where the high prairie begins to fold into the drainage basins of the Verdigris River system. The topography is defined by a series of branching creek valleys, including Slate Cr and Indian Cr, which have carved a rolling dissected upland typical of the eastern Kansas plains. Near the southern edge of the sheet, Sinclair Lake provides a localized water catchment amidst the agricultural grid.

Genealogists and local historians can find significant markers of early settlement at Andrew Cem in the north and Prairie Chapel Cem to the southeast. The land is heavily partitioned by a network of township and county roads, such as Teterhill Rd and Madison Rd, tracing the section lines that have governed Kansas land use since the original nineteenth-century surveys. This 2015 study shows the persistent rural character of the region, where the N Br Verdigris River continues to shape the local hydrology.