2022 Map of Dawson SW

About this map

Agricultural patterns and water management define this portion of the Minnesota prairie, where the Lac qui Parle Co and Yellow Medicine Co line divides the landscape. The drainage network is a mix of natural wandering streams like Lazarus Cr and engineered waterways such as County Ditch Number Eighty-three, illustrating the intensive land use of this farming region. Small, scattered cemeteries serve as quiet markers of the area's immigrant heritage, including the Swedish Lutheran Cem and the First Swedish Methodist Episcopal Cem. Further south, the Lac qui Parle River meanders toward the eastern boundary, joined by tributaries like Spring Cr. This modern survey documents the persistence of rural institutions like the Antelope Hills Christian Cem amidst a grid of section roads and field drainage systems.