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1941 Map of Hallock

Name: 1941 Topographic Map of Hallock
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1941
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1941

About this map

Hallock serves as the focal point of this Red River Valley landscape, situated at the confluence of the South Branch and the main channel of Two Rivers. The 1941 topography reveals a strictly organized agricultural grid across townships like Richardville and Clow, where the reliance on water management is evident through extensive drainage projects like State Ditch No 84 and Judicial Ditch No 31.

Transportation is defined by the intersection of the Great Northern and the Minneapolis St Paul and Sault Ste Marie railroads, which facilitated the growth of rail-side settlements such as Orleans and Lancaster. The rural social fabric is densely mapped through its naming of neighborhood institutions, including the evocatively named Grasshopper Sch, Bethlehem Ch, and several family-named landmarks like Nylander Sch and Webster Sch. This survey documents the Kittson County prairie just before mid-century modernization altered the rural schoolhouse system.