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2013 Map of Cannon City

Name: 2013 Topographic Map of Cannon City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2013
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2013

About this map

Cannon City serves as a central point in this Rice County landscape, situated where the rolling uplands of eastern Minnesota meet the riparian corridors of the Cannon River and Straight River. The drainage patterns here are particularly complex, with Prairie Cr and Falls Cr carving through the terrain to feed larger systems, including the headwaters of the N Fork Zumbro River in the southeast.

Agricultural land use is distinctly recorded through family-named landmarks such as Kanne Orchard and Trumps Orchard, while the small settlements of Prairieville and Ruskin illustrate the persistent rural community structure outside the expanding city limits of Faribault. The map captures the interface between established woodland, water bodies like Crystal Lake, and the dense network of numbered county roads and named avenues that define modern property divisions in this portion of the Northfield-Faribault corridor.