2018 Map of Tribune SW

About this map

Greeley County meets Hamilton County in this western Kansas landscape defined by the rigid geometry of the Public Land Survey System. The map documents a sparsely populated agricultural region during the early twenty-first century, where the terrain is segmented into precise sections by an extensive grid of local roads. These essential conduits, such as Co Rd BB and Co Rd X, follow township and range lines, providing the primary infrastructure for the high plains farmsteads and fields. The sparse hydrography and uniform distribution of thoroughfares like Co Rd 5 and Co Rd 10 illustrate the systematic organization of the frontier long after its initial settlement, preserving the 19th-century surveying legacy in a modern digital format.