2020 Map of Heart Butte NW

About this map

Morton County and Grant County meet along the 48th Street SW corridor in this rural North Dakota landscape. The terrain is defined by the winding paths of Beaver Creek and Heart Butte Creek, which flow through a high prairie characterized by distinct rises like Heart Butte and Cannon Hill. This region preserves its early 20th-century settlement patterns, where local life centered around remote institutions such as the Bethany Church Cemetery. To the south, the northern edge of Lake Tschida begins to form, a major hydrological feature on the Heart River. The map documents a section of the Northern Great Plains where the grid system of the Public Land Survey System dictates the placement of section lines and gravel roads, including County Road 138 and numerous numeric streets.