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1958 Map of Brinsmade SW

Name: 1958 Topographic Map of Brinsmade SW
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1959
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1959

About this map

The rolling prairies of Benson County are documented here in the late 1950s, showing a rural landscape defined by township boundaries and isolated community landmarks. The area, characterized by the Butte Valley terrain, is segmented into large agricultural sections across the townships of McClellan, Albert, Eldon, North Viking, and Aurora.

Social and civic life for local farming families is anchored by scattered rural institutions. Researchers can identify specific locations for the St Olaf Ch and the West Minnewaukan Ch, which served as vital gathering points in this sparsely populated region. Education is represented by the Eldon Sch, illustrating the distribution of one-room schoolhouses that once dotted the North Dakota plains before district consolidation. The map reflects a period of development under the Missouri River Basin program, capturing the precise layout of section lines and unimproved roads that connected these remote homesteads.