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1966 Map of Truscott North

Name: 1966 Topographic Map of Truscott North
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1968
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1968

About this map

Truscott serves as the primary hub of this 1960s West Texas landscape, positioned just south of a complex drainage network feeding into the North Wichita River. The topography is defined by the sharp transition between the upland plains and the dissected breaks carved by Salt Flat Creek and Bluff Creek. The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad cuts a straight north-south line across these varied elevations, bridging the river at a point marked by a Gaging Sta and nearby Gravel Pits.

An indefinite boundary between Foard and Knox counties meanders through the northwest corner, following the natural contours of the river valley. The map documents an era of infrastructure development with prominent Pipeline markers and several watercourse labels like China Creek and Deadman Creek that illustrate the regional hydrology before modern land-use changes altered many of these seasonal drainage patterns.