2020 Map of Belden SE

About this map

Mountrail County's high plains are defined by a rhythmic grid of gravel roads and scattered wetlands in this modern topographic survey. The landscape is primarily shaped by the Public Land Survey System, with township lines such as t154n r91w and t153n r90w marking the agricultural divisions of the territory. This map reveals a sparse but deeply rooted human presence, where isolated burial grounds serve as the primary landmarks of early settlement. The Belden Finnish Cemetery in the north and the Finstad Cemetery to the southwest provide tangible links to the immigrant families who established homesteads in this part of North Dakota. Between these sites, a network of section-line roads like 48th St NW and 79th Ave NW navigates a terrain of small seasonal basins and prairie depressions.