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1910 Map of Chokio

Name: 1910 Topographic Map of Chokio
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1968
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1968

About this map

Chokio and Alberta serve as primary hubs along the Great Northern R R (Browns Valley Branch) in this 1910 survey of western Stevens County. The landscape is a distinct grid of agricultural townships including El Dorado, Donnelly, Everglade, and Pepperton. This era is defined by a dense network of one-room schoolhouses, such as School No 55 and School No 62, illustrating the early 20th-century settlement pattern where education was localized within walking distance of rural farmsteads.

The eastern edge features the Great Northern Railway (Willmar and Larimore Line) passing through Donnelly, while the southern reaches contain a cluster of glacial water bodies like Lake Hattie, Gorder Lake, and Clear Lake. Notable landmarks like Harstad Slough and the Town Hall in Pepperton provide specific points of interest for those tracing local family roots or historical land use before mid-century modernizations.