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1981 Map of Dickinson

Name: 1981 Topographic Map of Dickinson
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1981
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1981

About this map

Dickinson serves as the focal point of this southwestern North Dakota landscape, situated along the Burlington Northern railroad and the Heart River. In the early 1980s, the community’s role as an educational and transit hub is evident through the presence of the State College and the Dickinson Municipal Airport. The surrounding terrain is defined by a series of prominent buttes, including Custer Lookout and Dobson Buttes, which punctuate the prairie between the winding courses of the Green River and Antelope Creek.

Agricultural settlements like New Hradec, Taylor, and Hebron are connected by a network of roads and rail lines that follow the drainage of the Knife River system. To the south, the landscape opens toward New England and the Cannonball River, while the Heart Butte Reservoir State Wildlife Management Area anchors the eastern reaches. This survey provides a clear view of the regional topography before modern expansion, capturing the relationship between isolated buttes and the river-fed valleys that supported these plains communities.