2016 Map of Beltrami SW

About this map

Sand Hill River meanders across this rural Polk County landscape, which is defined by an extensive system of agricultural drainage channels. This hydraulic engineering is evidenced by named features such as County Ditch Number One Hundred Nineteen and Judicial Ditch Number Fifty-seven, which crisscross the flat terrain of the Red River Valley. The area is organized by a precise grid of rural roads, including Co Hwy 1 and Co Rd 41, which segment the large sections of township T147N and T148N. A single pocket of early local history is preserved at Zion Cem, situated near the junction of 385th St SW and 290th Ave SW. This survey documents a landscape of intensive water management and rural settlement patterns in the mid-2010s.