2015 Map of Tribune NW

About this map

Rodgers Cem and Mathews Cem stand as quiet markers of the rural families who established this portion of the High Plains in Greeley County. The landscape is defined by the rigid grid of the Public Land Survey System, which organized the territory into townships such as t18s r42w and t18s r41w. Small communities like Walkinghood and Astor are positioned along a dense network of section-line roads, including Co Rd P and Co Rd 288. This road system reflects a late-20th-century reliance on precise geographic planning to manage the agricultural operations that dominate this western Kansas terrain. The map captures the intersection of family history and modern land management, where small burial grounds and legacy settlements persist within a vast, engineered grid.