2015 Map of Ulysses NW

About this map

Wolf Cr winds through the high plains of western Kansas in this 2015 study, providing a rare natural drainage feature in an otherwise strictly partitioned landscape. The terrain is defined by the grid of the Public Land Survey System, where agriculture and resource extraction share the territory. Evidence of the region’s primary transportation network is visible through roads like Co Rd D, which follow the section lines and connect the sparse rural homesteads. This map illustrates the intersection of natural hydrology and the rigid human geometry of the Great Plains, capturing the area as it appeared in the mid-2010s.