2011 Map of Lake Pickard

About this map

Goose River meanders across this prairie landscape in Grand Forks County, providing a primary drainage route through a region defined by its glacial pothole lakes. The terrain is dominated by these scattered water bodies, including the central Lake Pickard and the curiously named Gopher Tail Lake. This map captures a section of North Dakota where the rigid section-line road grid, consisting of routes like County Hwy 9 and 124th Ave NE, dictates the movement of people and commerce between agricultural plots. The presence of Deer Lake and Twin Lakes further north illustrates the density of these natural basins, which have long influenced local drainage patterns and farming boundaries in this portion of the Red River Valley watershed.