2011 Map of Trenton SW

About this map

North Fork Driftwood Creek meanders through the southern reaches of this landscape in Rawlins County, defining the drainage patterns of this high plains borderland. The topography is predominantly rural and agricultural, organized by a rigid section-line road network that includes Veterans Memorial Hwy and several numbered thoroughfares such as Street 1 and 6th Ave. A central water management feature, the Dahnke Reservoir, is held by the Dahnke Dam, providing a rare pocket of permanent surface water in this arid environment. This 2011 survey illustrates the modern rural infrastructure of the Kansas-Nebraska border region, where local access roads like Co Rd 316 connect isolated farmsteads to the larger regional highway system. The map captures the quiet, expansive character of the Great Plains, where development is sparse and tied closely to the intermittent watercourses and the established grid of county roads.