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2010 Map of Keewatin

Name: 2010 Topographic Map of Keewatin
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2010
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2010

About this map

The industrial heart of Minnesota’s Iron Range is captured in this detail of the Mesabi Range, where the landscape is defined by extensive open-pit mining operations. The settlement of Keewatin serves as a central hub, flanked by a dense concentration of mineral excavations including the Bennett Mine, Stein Mine, and Mesabi Chief Mine. These sites illustrate the intensive earth-moving that transformed the local topography into a series of pits and ridges. To the east, the community of Kelly Lake remains connected by a network of local roads like 1st Ave N and the Old Highway 169 corridor.

Water features like Welcome Lake and Snowshoe Lake sit interspersed among the mining pits, while the northern reaches of the quadrangle transition into less disturbed terrain near Horsehead Lake and Libby Lake. The presence of the Keewating Post Office and Keewatin Cemetery provides essential touchpoints for genealogists tracing families who lived and worked in these mining towns during the early 21st century.