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2017 Map of Ideal NE

Name: 2017 Topographic Map of Ideal NE
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2017
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2017

About this map

The White River carves a complex path through this segment of the South Dakota plains, defining the boundary between Lyman Co and Tripp Co. The river's meandering course creates dramatic landscape features like Horseshoe Bend, where the water loops tightly back upon itself amidst a network of drainage systems including Davis Cr and Thunder Cr. The map reveals a rural landscape organized by a grid of local access roads such as De Jong Rd and Hollenback Rd, which connect the elevated tablelands and deep draws of the river valley.

Evidence of early overland travel is preserved in the label for Wagon Rd, while the Red Hill Cem provides a specific point of interest for genealogists tracing family roots in this sparsely populated area. The terrain is characterized by intricate contour lines that illustrate the sharp erosion common to the river breaks, showing how the landscape falls away from the high prairie into the basin of the White River.