2019 Map of Lakefield SE

About this map

The Minnesota-Iowa border runs through this prairie landscape, where the southern reaches of Jackson County meet Dickinson County. Loon Lake and its neighboring Loon Lake Cem anchor the center of the sheet, surrounded by a complex network of glacial wetlands and water bodies. The terrain is defined by its drainage history, visible in the engineered straight lines of Judicial Ditch Number Sixty-six and Judicial Ditch Number Eight which contrast with the natural meanders of Stony Brook. At the southern edge, the map captures the northern tips of Spirit Lake and Little Spirit Lake, crossing into Iowa. The landscape transitions from the protected habitat of Andersons Marsh to the outskirts of Jackson in the northeast, illustrating a region shaped by both natural lake cycles and the agricultural grid of roads like Co HWY 34.