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2013 Map of Cosmos

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

USGS Topo · Published 2013

About this map

The town of Cosmos serves as the central hub of this agricultural landscape in the 2010s, situated at the junction of MN-7 and MN-4. This area on the border of Meeker Co and Renville Co is defined by a sophisticated water management system, where natural watercourses like the S Fork Crow River and Belle Cr are integrated with an extensive network of man-made channels including Judicial Ditch Number Eighteen and County Ditch Number Twentythree. These ditches illustrate the intensive modification of the prairie to support modern farming.

Local history is preserved at the Peace Cem and Cosmos Cem located just east of the town center. To the west, Thompson Lake and the Lux Strip Airport offer a different look at the township's layout. The map documents a place where traditional burial grounds and rural aviation exist alongside a grid of numbered roads, from 170th St to 890th Ave, that organize the productive fields of Central Minnesota.