2024 Map of Emerado SW

About this map

Salt Water Coulee meanders through this portion of Grand Forks County, defining the drainage patterns of an agricultural landscape structured by the Public Land Survey System. The area is characterized by its rural religious heritage, anchored by the Washington Lutheran Church and its associated Washington Lutheran Church Cem in the southern sections. Further north, the Gran Church and Gran Cem serve as focal points for local history and genealogy, representing the early 20th-century community centers that supported local farmsteads. A third place of worship, the Evangelical United Brethren, stands central to the grid of section roads like Co Rd 6 and 11th Ave NE. This 2024 survey documents the enduring spatial arrangement of North Dakota's Red River Valley township system, where historic church sites remain the primary landmarks amidst a network of precise gravel and paved corridors.