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1921 Map of Baudette

Name: 1921 Topographic Map of Baudette
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1943
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1943

About this map

The International Boundary between the United States and Canada anchors this northern Minnesota landscape, where the Rainy River flows past the adjacent settlements of Baudette and Spooner. This survey reflects a period of intensive drainage and land reclamation, documented through an intricate network of civil engineering projects including Judicial Ditch No 26, Judicial Ditch No 27, and Judicial Ditch No 28. These features, alongside notes on timber and swamp limits from surveys of Ceded Chippewa Lands, reveal the systematic effort to convert the northern wilderness into manageable tracts.

Transportation is defined by the Canadian Northern Railway and S.R.H. 32, while the southern reaches are dominated by the winding paths of the Rapid River and its branches. Local landmarks like the School near Pitt and family-named watercourses such as Christy Brook and Barton Brook provide essential markers for genealogists and local historians tracing the early 20th-century development of Beltrami and Lake of the Woods counties.