2017 Map of Belden SE

About this map

The rolling plains of New Town, North Dakota, are defined by a precise section-line grid that guides travel across this Mountrail County landscape. At the northern edge of the survey, the Belden Finnish Cem stands as a marker of the area's immigrant heritage and early settlement patterns. Further south, near the intersection of 43rd St NW and 81st Ave NW, lies the Finstad Cem, another vital link for genealogists tracing the families who established homesteads in this portion of the northern plains. The map is heavily structured by these gravel and dirt routes, such as 48th St NW and 79th Ave NW, which carve the prairie into regular townships. The terrain is characterized by numerous small depressions and wetlands common to the Missouri Plateau, creating a complex drainage network that works around the established road grid.