2017 Map of Brookings NE

About this map

Coteau des Prairies, the vast glacial upland that divides the Missouri and Mississippi watersheds, dominates this portion of Brookings County. The landscape is defined by a grid of rural roads and the meandering courses of the Big Sioux River and N Deer Cr. For genealogists and local historians, the sheet is an essential record of community anchors in this agricultural region. Four distinct burial grounds—Saint Petri Cem, Sterling Methodist Cem, Sterling Lutheran Cem, and Deer Creek Cem—serve as landmarks for the early 21st-century rural population. The township and range lines of t112n r50w, t112n r49w, t111n r50w, and t111n r49w intersect here, showing the enduring structure of South Dakota's Public Land Survey System.