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1950 Map of Biwabik NW

Name: 1950 Topographic Map of Biwabik NW
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1973
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1973

About this map

Big Rice Lake and the winding Pike River anchor this mid-century look at the northern woods of St. Louis County, where public lands converge at the State and National Forest Boundary. The map documents a landscape defined by state and federal forestry, split between the Kabetogama State Forest, Vermilion Lake State Forest, and the Superior National Forest.

Social and civic life is clustered along the established roadways, centered on the Florentine PO and the rural School No 14. Local heritage is preserved in the presence of small country congregations and their corresponding burial grounds, notably Sandy Ch with the nearby Sandy Cem, and Pike Ch located near the West Pike Cem. Small-scale industry is represented by a single Gravel Pit, suggesting a quiet era of transition before more intensive development reached these reaches of the Iron Range.