2018 Map of Fairmount NW

About this map

The Wild Rice River meanders through the northern sections of this rural Richland County landscape, defining the topography of an area dominated by precise agricultural partitioning. Surveyed in 2018, the landscape is organized by a rigorous grid of section lines and gravel roads, including the east-west corridor of Co Rd 16. The transition between townships like t132n r48w and t131n r48w highlights the enduring Public Land Survey System structure that has governed North Dakota land ownership since the nineteenth century. While few structures are named, the layout of numbered avenues such as 177th Ave SE and 180th Ave SE provides a clear framework for genealogists or local historians tracing family farmsteads and field boundaries across these prairie reaches.