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1962 Map of Greenbush NE

Name: 1962 Topographic Map of Greenbush NE
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1975
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1975

About this map

Stokes, Barnett, and Huss townships intersect in this corner of Roseau County, defining a rural landscape shaped by northern Minnesota’s low-lying drainage patterns. The Great Northern railroad cuts a diagonal line across the northwest corner, running parallel to the South Branch Two Rivers. This rail and river corridor provided the primary infrastructure for early 20th-century movement through the region.

Remote civic and community markers are scattered throughout the sections, including a central Townhall and the Barnett Cem. Several Gravel Pit operations suggest the local extraction of glacial materials, while a secondary Cem and numerous field lines, noted by the survey from 1953 aerial photography, reveal a strictly organized agricultural grid. The map provides a precise record of the section-line roads and drainage diversions that characterize the transition from natural prairie-marsh to settled farmland.