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1967 Map of Fairmont

Name: 1967 Topographic Map of Fairmont
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1979
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1979

About this map

A chain of glacial lakes defines the north-south axis of this Martin County landscape, where the city of Fairmont is centered amidst George Lake, Sisseton Lake, Budd Lake, and Hall Lake. The late 1960s city layout shows a dense network of municipal services including the Hospital, an Armory, and multiple educational institutions such as Lincoln Sch and High Sch. The economy of the era is anchored by transportation and extraction, evidenced by the convergence of the Chicago and North Western and the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific railroads near the Fairmont Municipal Airport, alongside numerous Gravel Pits distributed across the prairie.

Agricultural drainage patterns are highly engineered through extensive judicial ditches like Judicial Ditch No 8, which cut across the townships of Rutland and Rolling Green. The map reveals the community's social fabric through its parks, including Sylvania Park and Gomruds Park, and several historic burying grounds such as Lakeside Cemetery and Calvary Cem. To the north, the small village of Northrop sits as a quiet rail-side settlement surrounded by a patchwork of wetlands like Luedtke Slough and Martin Lake.