2014 Map of Blacktail Coulee

About this map

Wintering River and several significant coulees define this portion of the northern plains along the boundary of Ward and McHenry Counties. The landscape is dominated by the erosion patterns of Blacktail Coulee, which carves a deep path through the center of the sheet, and Bowers Coulee to the north. These natural drainage features break up an otherwise strictly organized grid of rural section roads, including 40th St N and 345th Ave SE. A few scattered water bodies, such as those feeding into Spring Cr, dot the upland areas between the deeper valleys. This 2014 survey records a modern rural topography where the traditional township-and-range lines are the primary evidence of human activity, contrasting with the sinuous, unregimented paths of the ancient coulees.