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1965 Map of Farming

Name: 1965 Topographic Map of Farming
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1986
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1986

About this map

The unincorporated community of Farming anchors the southwestern corner of this mid-1960s landscape, an area characterized by a dense network of glacial lakes and wetlands in rural Stearns County. Water dominates the geography, with clusters of family-named water bodies such as Backes Lake, Kranz Lake, and Mauritz Lake interspersed with larger basins like Big Rice Lake and Clear Lake. Transportation and utility infrastructure are evident through the Great Northern railroad line cutting across the northeast and County Ditch No 6 draining the central marshlands.

Local history is preserved through the distribution of several numbered rural schoolhouses, including School No 2028 and School No 2003, which speak to the area's agricultural settlement pattern. The map also documents institutional landmarks such as Immanuel Ch and a prominent Radio Tower. Detailed depth curves for many lakes, provided by the Minnesota Department of Conservation, offer a unique record of these aquatic environments before modern shoreline development.