2012 Map of Mitchell Lake

About this map

Pleasant View Cem sits in the northwestern corner of this Hyde County landscape, a marker of the agricultural community that established itself along the section lines of the South Dakota prairie. The map reveals a disciplined grid of rural roads, including 334th Ave and 183rd St, which segment the terrain into the traditional mile-square sections of the Great Plains. Water is a defining but sparse element in this high-plains environment, represented by the namesake Mitchell Lake in the east and the smaller Lake Douglas to the southwest. These ephemeral-looking water bodies and the surrounding drainage patterns illustrate the natural hydrology that shaped local land use and farmstead placement in the early twenty-first century.