About Cactus, Texas

Cactus is a Moore County city along U.S. Route 287, thirteen miles north of Dumas. It began during World War II as a company town serving an ammunition project, then passed through several industrial operators and products. The 2020 census recorded 3,057 residents, connecting the community's wartime origins with its present civic life.

  • Wartime BeginningThe Chemical Construction Company established the government-sponsored Cactus Ordnance Works in May 1942.
  • Explosives IngredientAfter completion in 1943, the plant produced ammonium nitrate for use in explosives.
  • Changing IndustriesShell began making aviation gasoline there in 1944, and the Emergency Export Corporation converted the plant to ammonia production in 1946.
  • Post Office OpensThe Cactus post office was established in 1948, when the local population had fallen to 2,000.
  • 2007 TornadoAn EF2 tornado injured 14 people in 2007 and damaged or destroyed an estimated one-third of Cactus.

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Names on the Cactus map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks2

  • Cactus City Hall
  • Cactus Park

Streets and roads60

  • Ashton Avenue
  • Sherri Avenue
  • North Drive
  • South Drive
  • Monfort Road
  • Tumbleweed Road
  • Schroeter Avenue
  • Center Drive
  • Cactus Feeders Road
  • Road 9
  • Rabbit Lane
  • Lometa Drive
  • Santa Fe Avenue
  • Prairie Avenue
  • Graham Avenue
  • Palo Duro Drive
  • Sunset Street
  • Poplar Avenue
  • FM 281
  • Ranch Road 281
  • Flint Street
  • Montana Drive
  • Texas Street
  • Cline Street
  • Nancy Avenue
  • Clara Avenue
  • Isabel Avenue
  • Yolanda Street
  • Pine Street
  • Stoney Drive
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  • Elm Avenue
  • Spruce Street
  • Yucca Street
  • Gutierrez Street
  • Little Rock Street
  • West Avenue
  • Lovell Avenue
  • Cooper Avenue
  • Rector Avenue
  • Winona Avenue
  • Granite Street
  • Penny Lane
  • Pebble Street
  • Fir Street
  • Thomas Drive
  • Glennis Avenue
  • East Avenue
  • Wiebe Avenue
  • Cedar Avenue
  • Earl Drive
  • Birch Avenue
  • Boulder Street
  • Terrell Avenue
  • Beola Avenue
  • Louva Avenue
  • Jalamo Street
  • Joshua Drive
  • Wilson Avenue
  • El Rancho Lane
  • Graham Drive

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The art of mapping a place

How This Map Was Made

Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.

  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

    Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.

  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

    Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.

  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

    Geography becomes art

    Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.

Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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