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2016 Map of Morton SE

Name: 2016 Topographic Map of Morton SE
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2016
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2016

About this map

Renville County farmland is defined here by a systematic network of drainage infrastructure and rural burial grounds. The agricultural landscape is divided by watercourses like Threemile Cr and Fort Ridgely Cr, alongside an extensive series of engineered channels including County Ditch Number One Hundred Fifteen and County Ditch Number One Hundred Nine A. These waterways suggest the significant effort required to manage the prairie hydrology for large-scale cultivation.

Genealogists will find a high concentration of historic local cemeteries scattered across the township sections. Significant sites include the Fort Ridgely and Dale Cem and the Finnish Cem, providing valuable touchpoints for tracing early settler heritage. The map also records the Franklin Cem, Hauges Cem, and Gilbert Borth Cem, illustrating the distributed nature of early community centers in this region of Minnesota.