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2019 Map of Buffalo Lake

Name: 2019 Topographic Map of Buffalo Lake
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2019
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2019

About this map

Buffalo Lake serves as the primary hub for this agricultural portion of south-central Minnesota, straddling the border between Renville Co and Sibley Co. The landscape is defined by an intricate network of drainage systems, including Judicial Ditch Number Fifteen and County Ditch Number Ten, which signify the region's long-term conversion of wetlands into productive farmland. Evidence of this transformation is found in Buck Lakebed, a prominent dry feature in the eastern section of the sheet.

For genealogists and local historians, several rural burial sites are scattered across the township, such as the Knopke-Brown Cem and Brack Cem, alongside the United Brethren Cem further south. These markers, along with the headwaters of High Island Cr and Buffalo Cr, provide essential geographic anchors for tracing family farmsteads and the early 21st-century rural infrastructure of this prairie region.