Loading map...

2013 Map of Green Isle

Name: 2013 Topographic Map of Green Isle
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2013
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2013

About this map

Green Isle serves as the primary hub of this Sibley County landscape, where the town's grid meets the diagonal path of MN-5. The surrounding countryside is defined by an extensive network of water management features, including High Island Ditch Number Two and Judicial Ditch Number Eight, which navigate the low-lying terrain between scattered basins like Curran Lake and Schauer Lake. This infrastructure reveals the long-term engineering required to maintain the region's agricultural productivity.

Local heritage is preserved across several rural burial grounds, including Green Isle Cem, Zion Cem, and Saint Marys Cem. A notable geographic detail is the Brian Lakebed, indicating a drained or seasonal water body in the northern section of the map. Traces of older transit routes appear in names like Stagecoach Rd, providing a contrast to the modern county highway system that now structures the rural blocks.