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2022 Map of Emmons

Name: 2022 Topographic Map of Emmons
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2022
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2022

About this map

Emmons sits at the very edge of the Minnesota-Iowa border, anchoring a landscape defined by an extensive network of managed water and glacial lakes. This corner of Freeborn County reveals how early 21st-century agricultural land management relies on engineered drainage, with features like Judicial Ditch Number Nine, County Ditch Number Forty, and County Ditch Number Seventeen cutting across the sections to regulate the prairie wetlands. These ditches connect the larger natural bodies of water, including Upper Twin Lake and Lower Twin Lake, which dominate the central terrain.

For those tracing family roots, the map provides precise locations for several regional burial grounds, such as Bear Lake Concordia Lutheran Cem, Lunder Lutheran Cem, and the small Shady Oak Cem near Everhart Lake. The village of Twin Lakes is situated along the corridor of Highway 69, serving as a local hub between the larger lakes and the meandering course of Goose Cr. This survey illustrates the persistent intersection of the Public Land Survey System grid with the irregular shorelines of State Line Lake and Bear Lake.