Audubon Lake anchors the western edge of this McLean County landscape, illustrating the intricate prairie pothole region of North Dakota. The area is defined by a vast network of small, unnamed wetlands and depressions scattered between a rigid grid of rural roads. These section-line corridors, including 15th St NW and 25th Ave NW, reveal the persistent geometric order imposed on the undulating plains for agricultural and transit purposes. To the southeast, the larger basins of Crooked Lake and Lake Nettie provide significant hydrologic landmarks in a territory otherwise dominated by ephemeral water bodies and isolated farm access routes like 26th Ave NW.
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1929 · Coleharbor
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1929 · Benedict
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1929 · Kongsberg
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1947 · Turtle Lake
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1954 · McClusky
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1958 · McClusky
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1961 · Turtle Lake
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1961 · Lake Nettie
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1972 · Coleharbor
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1974 · Benedict SE
USGS Topo · 1:24,000