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1932 Map of Grahams Island

Name: 1932 Topographic Map of Grahams Island
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1932
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1932

About this map

Grahams Island rises as the central landmark of this landscape, surrounded by the waters of Devils Lake and its various reaches, including West Bay and East Bay. Surveyed in the late 1920s, the map reveals a region defined by its complex glacial hydrology and a dense network of early rural institutions. The township lines of Normania, Coulee, and Pelican are dotted with numerous numbered schoolhouses and country churches, such as Antiochia Ch and Big Coulee Ch, reflecting the distributed settlement patterns of the era.

Transportation is dominated by the intersecting routes of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads, which served small communities like Penn and Oberon. To the south, the boundary of the Fort Totten Indian Reservation meets the shoreline, while the presence of features like Dry Lake and Stink Lake illustrates the fluctuating water levels characteristic of this basin during the early twentieth century.