2009 Map of Upland

About this map

Chapman Creek meanders through the heart of this agricultural landscape in eastern Dickinson County, creating a serpentine corridor of natural drainage across a rigid section-line road grid. The settlement of Upland stands as a primary point of reference in the northeast, while the smaller locales of Sutphen and Moonlight are distributed across the central and southern portions of the quadrangle. These small communities are connected by a naming system for rural thoroughfares that includes alphabetically themed paths such as Nova Rd, Oat Rd, Okra Rd, and Quail Rd. For those researching local history, the placement of Liberty Cemetery and Jones Cemetery provides specific geographic markers for early residents of this prairie region, while the numerical road designations like 3000 Ave and 3400 Ave reflect the organized expansion of the Kansas heartland in the early twenty-first century.