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2019 Map of Fulda SW

Name: 2019 Topographic Map of Fulda SW
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2019
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2019

About this map

Pfingsten serves as the primary landmark in this section of Southwest Minnesota, located at the intersection of rural roads within the notable Coteau des Prairies highland. This geographic feature, which forms a flat-topped plateau, heavily influences the drainage patterns of the region, visible through the engineered water management of County-Ditch Number Eighty, Judicial Ditch Number Twenty, and Judicial Ditch Number Twelve. These ditches represent the early 20th-century agricultural efforts to reclaim the prairie wetlands for farming.

Genealogists and local historians can locate the American Lutheran Cem near the center of the survey and Seward Cem further east, near the headwaters of Jack Cr. The map reveals a strictly gridded landscape of township and range lines, with the border between Murray and Nobles counties bisecting the northern portion. The layout of section lines and gravel roads like Nystrom Ave and McCall Ave preserves the original settlement pattern of the prairie.