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1968 Map of Long Lake NE

Name: 1968 Topographic Map of Long Lake NE
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1970
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1970

About this map

Albert and Wacker townships straddle the border of North Dakota and South Dakota in this late-1960s survey. The landscape is defined by the high density of small potholes and depressions characteristic of the Missouri Coteau, where the drainage is largely internal. Rath Lake stands as one of the few named bodies of water in this glacial drift prairie.

For family historians, the map is remarkably precise in its placement of rural burials, including St Lucas Cem in the north and the Ehresman Cem, Saron Cem, and Gienger Cem to the south. These sites, along with several scattered Gravel Pit operations, provide specific coordinates for 20th-century family homesteads and local infrastructure at a time when the section lines of McIntosh and McPherson counties were the primary markers of human movement through the prairie.