1981 Map of Delano

About this map

The confluence of the North Fork Crow River and the South Fork Crow River anchors this 1981 survey of the Wright and Hennepin county border. The city of Delano serves as the primary hub, where the Burlington Northern railroad corridor meets a cluster of civic and religious landmarks. For those researching local heritage, the map is remarkably dense with cemeteries, documenting sites like Mt Olive West Cem and Mt Olive East Cem, which suggest the historic expansion of local congregations. Outside the city center, the landscape is defined by glacial kettle lakes such as Dean Lake and Crawford Lake, alongside the developed recreation areas at Lake Rebecca County Park. This map records a period of established agricultural and residential patterns before the rapid suburbanization of the late twentieth century reached this portion of the Crow River valley.