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2016 Map of Albert Lea West

Name: 2016 Topographic Map of Albert Lea West
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2016
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2016

About this map

Albert Lea anchor the southeastern corner of this Freeborn County landscape, where the city's residential streets and cemeteries meet a complex network of glacial lakes and managed drainage. The terrain is defined by a dense system of agricultural ditches, including County Ditch Number Eleven and Judicial Ditch Number Five, which connect numerous bodies of water such as School Section Lake and White Lake. These waterways trace the engineering efforts required to reclaim the wet prairie for farming, a process that shaped the growth of nearby settlements like Manchester and Armstrong.

Genealogists will find significant value in the distribution of burial sites across the township, from the Graceland Cem and Itasca Cem near the city to the West Freeborn Cem in the northwest. Spiritual life in the rural sections is marked by landmarks like the Concordia Lutheran Church, while the shoreline of Fountain Lake shows the transition from urban density to the open, water-dotted plains of southern Minnesota.