2021 Map of Artesian NE

About this map

Redstone Cr and its tributaries define the drainage of this prairie landscape at the junction of Beadle, Kingsbury, Sanborn, and Miner counties. The map reflects the enduring power of the Public Land Survey System, with the terrain organized into a rigid grid of section roads including 217th St and 418th Ave. This geometric settlement pattern, typical of the eastern South Dakota plains, dictates the placement of farmsteads and agricultural boundaries throughout t109n r59w and t108n r58w. Occasional wetlands and the meandering course of W Redstone Cr provide the only breaks in the structured section lines, illustrating how local hydrology slightly influenced the otherwise relentless inland road grid in the early twenty-first century.