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2019 Map of Albert Lea West

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

USGS Topo · Published 2019

About this map

Albert Lea anchors the southeastern corner of this Freeborn County landscape, where the residential street grid gives way to an extensive network of managed waterways and glacial lakes. The western outskirts of the city are defined by Fountain Lake and the wetlands around Mud Lake, while the rural expanse to the north and west is partitioned by an intricate system of agricultural drainage, including Judicial Ditch Number 21 and County Ditch Number 58. Small rural hubs like Manchester and Armstrong provide focal points for the surrounding farmstead culture.

Genealogists and local historians can find several significant burial sites across the township lines of T103N R22W and T102N R21W, such as Graceland Cem, Itasca Cem, and the Concordia Lutheran Church Cem of Pickerel Lake. The terrain is marked by numerous water bodies like Sugar Lake, White Lake, and Lake Val Halla, reflecting the complex post-glacial hydrology of southern Minnesota just before the turn of the 2020s.