2011 Map of Kunkel Lake

About this map

Kunkel Lake and Sink Lake anchor this glaciated landscape in Kidder County, where water bodies of varying sizes punctuate a rigid grid of rural section roads. The map reveals a North Dakota prairie dominated by internal drainage basins, including the northern waters of Des Moines Lake and the adjacent Iowa Lake. These alkaline or freshwater wetlands are central to the local environment, providing critical habitat within the expansive agricultural patchwork defined by routes such as 24th St SE and 40th Ave SE. The lack of concentrated settlements highlights the region's character as a sparsely populated prairie-pothole territory, where the interaction between the land's natural depressions and the man-made township-and-range surveying system is the most defining geographic feature.