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1961 Map of Lake Coe

Name: 1961 Topographic Map of Lake Coe
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1962
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1962

About this map

Glacial prairie potholes and scattered wetlands define this section of Eddy County, as documented by a 1961 field check. The landscape is a network of water bodies including Lake Coe, Cherry Lake, and the elongated South Washington Lake. This era shows a rural township structure where civic life centered on one-room schoolhouses like School No 9 and School No 3, which served the local farming community.

Section lines and section-line roads impose a rigid grid over the irregular terrain of the Missouri River Basin. Small industrial marks like a Gravel Pit appear near several shorelines, indicating local resource extraction. The presence of named landmarks such as Devils Thumb and various smaller lakes like Medicine Lake and Ninemile Lake provides specific points of reference for those tracing family land holdings or the environmental history of the North Dakota plains before modern agricultural shifts.