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2019 Map of Wiley

Name: 2019 Topographic Map of Wiley
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2019
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2019

About this map

Wiley serves as the primary hub of this eastern Colorado landscape, located just east of the Bent and Prowers County line. The map reveals an intricate network of irrigation and water management essential to High Plains agriculture, featuring the Satanta Canal, Fort-Lyon-Canal, and Pawnee Canal. This water infrastructure, supplemented by the Wiley Drainage Ditch and Clover Meadow Ditch, supports the rural settlements of Big Bend and Sugar.

Genealogists can identify the precise layout of the town center, including Main Street and Gordon Street, and locate the Wiley Cemetery northwest of the main township. The presence of Thurston Reservoir in the northeast and various drainage systems like the Marburg Ditch illustrates the engineered nature of the terrain, where every mile of roadway, from Co RD Uu to Co RD LL, follows the strict grid of the Public Land Survey System.