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1967 Map of Lake Hanska East

Name: 1967 Topographic Map of Lake Hanska East
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1968
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1968

About this map

The sprawling waters of Lake Hanska and the adjacent Omsrud Lake dominate this mid-century portrait of Brown County, Minnesota. This is a landscape of extensive agricultural drainage, marked by a complex network of man-made waterways including Judicial Ditch No 10, County Ditch No 11, and Co Ditch No 58. The Little Cottonwood River meanders through the northern section, while the southern reaches reveal a community centered around rural institutions.

Local history and genealogy are anchored by the Lake Hanska Ch and its accompanying Lake Hanska Cem, along with Zion Cem further north. Traces of an earlier educational system appear at School No 226, while the Chicago and North Western railroad skirts the southeastern corner of the map. The presence of the Broom Lakebed suggests the shifting nature of the local hydrology and land use as the region's farming infrastructure matured during the late 1960s.