2012 Map of Gettysburg Municipal Airport SE

About this map

Stone Lake anchors the northeastern corner of this Sully County landscape, a prominent hydrological feature in an otherwise strictly gridded prairie environment. The territory is defined by the Section Land Survey system, where precise corridors like 315th Ave and 320th Ave run north-to-south, intersected by latitudinal routes such as 175 St and 181st St. This spatial organization reflects the late-twentieth-century agricultural development of South Dakota, where the natural drainage of seasonal water bodies and small basins contrasts with the rigid human imprint of the road network. The map reveals the subtle topographic variations and drainage patterns that dictate the placement of rural farmsteads and field boundaries across this high plains region.