2018 Map of White Woman Bottoms

About this map

Garden City sits at the southern edge of this West Central Kansas landscape, where the urban grid of the county seat meets the expansive section-line agriculture of the High Plains. The terrain is defined by White Woman Bottoms, a distinctive geographic depression that historically received the ephemeral drainage of White Woman Creek. The map reveals a strictly organized rural network, with gravel and paved roads like Shoupe Rd and N Sixteen Mile Rd defining mile-square sections. A notable point for family historians is the Hulpieu Homestead Cem, located north of E Six Mile Rd, serving as a silent marker of early settlement efforts in Finney County. The transition from the developed outskirts of the city to the large-scale industrial farming operations to the north is evidenced by the numerous irrigation wells and feeders scattered throughout the bottoms.