2024 Map of May Lake SE

About this map

Glacial prairie potholes and scattered wetlands define this section of the Great Plains in South Central North Dakota. The landscape is dominated by the Mcintosh County Waterfowl Production Area, a significant conservation tract in the northeastern corner of the sheet. This area illustrates the persistence of the prairie pothole ecosystem amidst the region's agricultural grid of gravel roads and section lines. The map reveals the rural spiritual and genealogical roots of the area through sites such as the Saint Pauls Lutheran Cem and the Venturia Reformed Cem Hoffnungsthal Cem. The surveyed townships, including t130n r71w, show a settlement pattern of dispersed farmsteads connected by a strictly regularized road network, including 38th Ave SE and 93rd St SE, typical of the late twentieth and early twenty-first-century agrarian Midwest.