2020 Map of Amidon SE

About this map

Chalky Buttes and the nearby Rattlesnake Butte anchor the northern reaches of this landscape in Slope County, where the high prairie begins to break into the drainage systems of the Missouri River watershed. This survey captures a terrain defined by its complex hydrography, showing the divergence of Cedar Cr and its various tributaries, including the N Fork Cedar Cr and S Fork Cedar Cr. The southern border follows the line between Slope Co and Bowman Co, a boundary that cuts across a network of rural section-line roads like 80th St SW. The map documents a sparsely populated ranching or farming region where the infrastructure is primarily limited to the grid of the Public Land Survey System and the local roads that follow them, such as 140th Ave SW, providing a precise record of late-twentieth-century land use and drainage patterns in the North Dakota badlands fringe.