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1913 Map of Cuyuna

Name: 1913 Topographic Map of Cuyuna
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1970
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1970

About this map

Cuyuna and the surrounding lakes of Crow Wing County are captured here just before the First World War, revealing a landscape defined by its complex hydrology and early industrial rail lines. The Mississippi River meanders through the southern half of the sheet, bordered by the Minneapolis St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie and Northern Pacific railroads. These lines were vital to the development of settlements like Iron Hub and Wolford.

A dense network of rural schoolhouses, including the Mud Brook School and Keeler School, suggests a well-distributed agrarian population across townships like Fairfield and Ross Lake. The map illustrates the natural state of the region's major water bodies such as Rabbit Lake and Stark Lake before modern development altered their shorelines. Geographers R.B. Marshall and W.H. Herron oversaw this 1913 survey, which remains a primary resource for tracing family homesteads and the early infrastructure of the Cuyuna Iron Range.