2017 Map of Colgan East

About this map

Colgan sits in the northwestern corner of this prairie landscape, reflecting the grid-based settlement patterns of Divide County near the Canadian border. The terrain is defined by a dense network of sectional roads and thousands of small glacial depressions and wetlands that dot the township lines of t164n r100w and t163n r99w. The east-west corridor of ND 5 serves as the primary artery for the region, connecting isolated farmsteads via a precise matrix of numbered routes like 106th St NW and 135th Ave NW. This survey documents the modern land management and public land survey system divisions in a remote agricultural environment, showing how the rural infrastructure adapts to the undulating, water-pocked geography of the northern plains.