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2018 Map of Bloom

Name: 2018 Topographic Map of Bloom
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2018
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2018

About this map

The settlement of Bloom serves as a central anchor for this pocket of Stutsman County, where the topography is defined by the prairie potholes and drainage patterns of the northern Great Plains. In the southern reach of the quadrangle, the James River snakes through the landscape, joined by the distinctive Sevenmile Coulee. The rural grid is peppered with smaller bodies of water like Nine Lake and Rush Island Lake, which sit alongside the small settlement of Johnson near the eastern border.

Local history is preserved at the Spiritwood Cem in the eastern section, while a network of rural roads such as Moon Shine Trl and Co Rd 40 provides access to the agricultural tracts between the James River valley and the northern wetlands. This map captures the region's enduring character as a sparsely populated farming landscape where natural drainage and the straight lines of the Public Land Survey System dictate the placement of homes and infrastructure.