Beaver County.kmz

Beaver County

"No Man's Land" [Cimarron Territory]

Beaver County boundaries

ID #s - Range/Township/Section

Range/township/section lines

Township 1-2

Township 2

Township 3

Township 4

Range 20-21

Range 22

Range 23

Range 24

Rivers & creeks

Beaver [N. Canadian] River

Cimarron River

Bullard Creek [R28-6-22]

Bull Creek [R20-3-33]

Camp Creek [R25-4-28]

Camp Creek [R28-2-16]

Clear Creek [R24-4-23]

Coon Creek [R26-1-29]

Duck Pond Creek [R26-3-5]

Dugout Creek [R22-4-25]

Fulton Creek [R20-1-4]

Horse Creek [R28-5-9]

Indian Creek [R27-1-20]

Jackson Creek [R21-4-33]

Kiowa Creek [R27-2-11]

Mexico Creek [R27-3-6]

Sand Creek [R27-2-5]

Sharps Creek [R21-4-21]

Spring Creek [R24-4-20]

Taintor Creek [R26-6-34]

Willow Creek [R22-4-29]

Pre-History

Indian village R28-T5-S4

Indian village

mastodon discovery [locate]
Balko

"Slab" people [locate]

Odessa Yates Village - 1346 A.D. [locate]

Early trails

Coronado's Trail [better define]

Coronado's Trails - 1541 A.D.

Coronado's trails across Oklahoma

to Kansa

from Kansa

Kansa

Tascosa Trail [better define]

Tascosa Trail [better define]
From Tascosa, TX to Dodge City, KS via Dumas, TX, Beaver, OK & Meade, KS.

Jones & Plummer Trail
Northern half of the Tascosa Trail.

Tascosa Trail

Tascosa, TX

Meade, KS

Dodge City, KS

Beaver

Dumas, TX

Balko

original school
Location of former school. New school built in 1950.
1920s-1948 Mrs. Leigh C. Green, teacher & principal

school

United Methodist Church

Presbyterian Church

dwelling
Built in mid-1920s
Owners:
1924 - 1948 Mrs. Leigh C. Green [teacher 7th-8th & principal of Beaver school 1-8 until late '40s]
Burned in the late 20th century. Replaced by a new dwelling.

Elmwood

Floris

Forgan

school
1957 - Former school, a 2-story brick building, was torn down and made into playground when the new school was built.
1950s - George Loepp was a longtime teacher, beloved principal, and superintendent of the school. Adjacent Loepp Field was named in his honor.

United Methodist Church
Kathlyn Loepp, organist for 70 years in Forgan & Beaver.

farmstead
Owners:
Bill and Corinne Sallee
mid 1950s - 1990 George & Kathlyn Loepp

Gate

Knowles

Slapout

Turpin

store
Winters
Cox

post office
1920s: Naomi Cantrell - postmistress
Harvey Board & Ralph Hill - mail carriers

bank & beauty shop

restaurant

gas station & car repair
Owners:
Wheeler

blacksmith shop

barbershop

gas station
Paramalee

railroad station

one-room school/church??

former school
Mr. Malin - superintendent
burned in the late 1900s

United Methodist Church
Former church built xxxx??
Current church built xxxx??

UMC parsonage

Holland's Grove
A favorite swimming place and picnic area with bluff overlooking the creek and a beautiful grove of trees.

Board Farm - 1920s
Harvey & Ethel Board
This house was built by the Boards in the mid-1920s. It was unique in that there was access to the cellar for parking a car. The family lived in the cellar while the rest of the house was being finished.
mid1940s -

Wheeler Farm - 1920s
1920s - Lyle & Gertie Wheeler
1950s?? -

Arnold

Clevenger

Mapping Beaver County - ghost towns, schools & churches/post offices & stores/ plus homesteads
During the mid-1900s, Harry L. Greene of Beaver, OK, an engineer by profession, walked and mapped these past and present sites and structures of Beaver County. We are forever indebted to him for this extensive survey of the county he grew up in and so loved.

Homesteads [owners c. 1940]

R20-2-3 Pierce

R20-2-13 Bransgin

R21-6-25 W.T. Potter

R24-2-21 Green claim

R24-3-30 Barker

R25-1-17 Peterson

R25-1-18 Peterson

R25-2-18 Sprague

R25-3-33 Bert Gray

R25-3-33 C.V. Conner

R25-3-34 C.W. Conner

R26-1-10 C.H. Baldwin

R26-1-23 E.E. Baldwin

R26-1-24 Baurquin [ck sp]

R26-2-14 Baumgartner

R27-1-9 Copples

R27-1-19 Kunles

R27-2-17 Landon

R27-3-5 Baker

R28-4-29 Laverty

R28-6-32 Jacob Berends

R28-6-32 B.J. Berends

R26-3-17 Lewis Barby

Ghost towns

Alpine R26-4-30

Beer City [White City] R20-6-3?
Beer City was created in 1888 in 'No Man's Land' which didn't belong to any state or the nation at that time. The cowboys and trail drivers who frequented the area felt that since they couldn't get liquor in Beaver City, they needed a place to "relax." An entrepreneur businessman in Liberal began the town as a tent city, calling it 'White City', but it shortly came to be called 'Beer City', as the only businesses in town were saloons and brothels. The two wooden buildings in town were both "hotels" which served liquor and provided women.
One of the hotel owners was 'Pussycat' Nell Jones and the other was Amos Bush, nicknamed 'Brushy Bush' because of his mustache and beard. Brushy named himself sheriff and imposed business taxes on both saloon owners and brothels, himself excluded, of course, since he was the sheriff. Pussycat shot at him through one of the windows in her hotel, killing him. However, 17 men came to her rescue and shot him also, so no one could prove who killed him. Two of the men were taken to Paris, Texas, the closest court, but one mysteriously died on the way and the other one was acquitted.
Pussycat is buried at Liberal and Bush was first thrown in a hole and, ironically, covered with brush, but later was dug up and taken to Anthony, Kansas, to be buried by his wife and children.
The town went out of business when the Panhandle became part of Oklahoma Territory in 1890 and a real bona fide sheriff was elected in Beaver to serve the entire area. [PH]

Benton R26-3-1

Bluegrass R28-3-32

Boyd #4 R21-3-30 [three others?]

Clearlake R26-3-29

Dombey R20-4-27

Floris [original] R22-5-8

Ivanhoe R27-1- [four?]

Lakemp R23-1-24

Lockwood R26-1-33

Logan R26-1-1

Madison [Custer?] R27-2-10

Mocane R25-5-17

Neutral City R28-4-6

Rothwell R22-4-20

Sod Town R26-1-28

Sophia R25-1-19

Sunset R26-1-20

Surprise [McVicker] R25-2-35

Ghost post offices & stores

Antelope R26-3-9

Beatrice R21-6-25

Coin-Garland R27-6-28

Conroy R24-1-20

Copass R21-5-25

Couch [Anthony] R21-3-12

Duckpond R24-2-35

E. Kokomo R22-4-25

Ector R21-2-7

Elsie R22-3-2

Esther R26-5-21

Fairview R26-5-25

Falkey R24-3-15

Fulton R20-1-4

Granada R22-3-26

Hereford R27-4-36

Holland R28-2-20

Lansing R27-4-12

Lorena R20-5-16
ghost post office
Lorena Board [born 1921], daughter of Harvey & Ethel Board of Turpin, was born near and named for this post office! Harvey Board, her father, was a mail carrier during the Dust Bowl days and operated out of this then-new facility.

Mallory R22-1-18

Marengo R26-2-18

Meridian R28-4-34

Minnelo R26-325

Munden R24-3-1

Murdock R28-6-22

Paladin R25-1-15

Paladora #1 R20-3-10

Paladora #2 R20-3-10

Paladora #3 R21-4-17

Peoria R24-5-7

Plainview [Ector]

Pronto R22-1-13

Ragsdale R21-1-5

Riverside R25-4-28

Ruskin R28-3-20

Six Mile R23-3-9

Tapley R23-2-20

Tarbox [est.] R21-4-17

Wellborn R21-1-21

Wentworth R25-1-34

Zelma R27-4-9

Ghost schools & churches

New Hope R20-2-22

Bunchgrass R20-3-31

Enterprise R20-4-8

Deepwater R20-4-28

Independent R20-5-16

Pleasant View #70 R20-6-20

Homestead R21-1-26

Sunny Slope #103 R21-1-31

Bethany [S] R21-2-22

Pleasant Valley [Hayden] R21-3-21

Liberty R21-3-31

Sharps Creek R21-4-15

Sharps Creek R21-4-17

W. Kokomo R21-4-24

Ervin R21-5-8

Pleasant Valley R12-5-29

Coyote R21-6-23

Bethel R21-6-30

Blue Mound #1 R22-1-14

Blue Mound #2 R22-1-21

Willow Creek R22-3-22

Prarie Hill #162 R22-3-29

Floris R22-5-8

Floris R22-5-9

New Hope R22-5-20

Fulton R22-6-27

Greenhough R22-6-29

Barker R23-2-8

Valley View R23-2-28

Six Mile #1 R23-3-4

Six Mile #3 R23-3-4

Home Creek R23-3-23

Union Star #8 R23-3-33

South Flat [S] R24-1-8

Mountcastle R24-1-10

Happy Hollow R24-1-11

Rutledge R24-1-24

Liberty R24-1-27

Mt. Vernon R24-2-9

Elmwood [S&C] R24-2-18

Goetzinger R24-3-11

Crossroads R24-3-20

Crossroads R24-3-21

Shadden R24-3-23

Busch Chapel R24-3-30

Hogsett R24-4-22

Hamilton R24-5-2

Capitol Hill R24-5-11

Hatton R24-6-20

Sunny Hill R25-1-8

Locust Grove R25-1-10

North Fork R25-1-32

Hibbs R25-2-9

Ridgeway R25-3-12

Camp Creek R25-3-30

Riverside R25-4-27

Riverside R25-4-33

Pleasant Valley R25-6-35

Victory R26-2-27

Twin Mounds R26-2-28

Conquest R26-3-3

Minnelo R26-3-25

Blue Ribbon R26-3-36

Beaumont R26-4-12

Sunnyside [two?] R26-4-19

Sunnyside [two?] R26-4-29

Ivanhoe R27-1-[four locations]

Copple R27-1-16

Golden R27-1-19

Sand Creek R27-2-19

Indian Creek R27-2-21

Highland Chapel [Sunrise] R27-3-9

Pleasant View #16 R27-4-31

Excelsior R27-5-10

Pleasant View R27-4-28

Willow Springs R27-5-24

Crooked Creek R27-6-15

Glendale R28-2-34

Highland R28-3-9

Bluegrass R28-3-33

Pleasant Valley R28-4-19

Sunny Slope R28-4-27

Glenwood R28-6-16

Schools & churches [active c.1940]

Bethel [C] & cemetery R21-2-22

Couch [Anthony] RR21-3-11

Fairview R28-2-33

Garrett R24-2-27

Overstreet R27-2-35

Palestine [Riverview] [S&C] R20-1-3

Round Timber R27-4-36

South Flat [C] R24-1-14

Cemeteries

R20-2-20 [unmarked]

R25-3-36 [unmarked]