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2013 Map of Clara City

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

USGS Topo · Published 2013

About this map

Clara City serves as the central hub of this agricultural landscape in Western Minnesota, situated where Mn-23 and Mn-7 converge. The town's grid is oriented diagonally along the rail corridor, featuring a centralized Po and commercial district along Main St S and Center Ave E. The surrounding territory is defined by the rigid mile-block section lines of the Public Land Survey System, with gravel roads like 130th Ave SE and 40th St SE creating a precise geometric patchwork of farmland.

Evidence of early rural community life is preserved at Bunde, a small settlement to the southeast centered around the Christian Reform Church Cem. Further west, Bethany Cem sits just north of the Clara City limits. The natural drainage of Hawk Cr provides the only break in the rectilinear road network, winding through the western portion of the quadrangle near the Chippewa and Renville county line.