2010 Map of Clements SE

About this map

The agricultural landscape of Brown County is defined by a precise section-line grid of rural roads and scattered family burial grounds. Waterways such as Sleepy Eye Creek and Coal Mine Creek cut across this geometric layout, providing natural breaks in the vast expanses of farmland. The distribution of cemeteries, including the Sundown Lutheran Church Cemetery and North Star Cemetery, points to the long-standing community centers and early congregations that settled this prairie region. Located between County Hwy-4 and County Hwy-2, these sites offer researchers a way to trace the footprints of German and Scandinavian immigrant families. The network of local routes like Magnolia Ave and Nature Ave connects the homesteads that have maintained the rural character of this southern Minnesota township through the turn of the twenty-first century.