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1949 Map of Hartland

Name: 1949 Topographic Map of Hartland
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1949
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1949

About this map

Hartland sits at the crossing of the Great Northern railroad, serving as a vital rail node in this 1940s landscape. The settlement is surrounded by an organized grid of section lines that underscore the agricultural identity of Ward and Renville Counties. Education and community life are grounded at sites like Viola School No 1 and several local burial grounds, including Zion Cem and Johnson Cem.

The Des Lacs River cuts a deep, winding valley across the northern portion of the map, followed closely by the Minneapolis St Paul and Sault Ste Marie railroad line. The dramatic elevation change between the river valley and the higher prairie terrain, such as the area around Flaten Coulee, highlights the glacial geography of the region. This survey was conducted as part of the Department of the Interior's Missouri River Basin development program, documenting the prairie's infrastructure at the dawn of the mid-century.