2020 Map of Dunn Center NE

About this map

Chimney Butte Cr winds through this section of Dunn County, highlighting a landscape defined by its prairie drainages and the rigid geometry of the Public Land Survey System. The map documents a sparsely populated rural region where the section lines of t146n r94w and t145n r93w dictate the local transportation network. This survey illustrates the modern agricultural footprint of the North Dakota badlands fringe, where large tracts of land are accessed by a grid of numbered roads including 97th Ave NW and 1st St NW. The terrain is characterized by numerous small depressions and seasonal wetlands scattered across the plateaus, typical of the glaciated plains. For researchers, it provides a precise record of late-twentieth and early-twenty-first-century rural infrastructure before further energy development or land-use changes altered the local topography.