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1968 Map of Myrtle Lake

Name: 1968 Topographic Map of Myrtle Lake
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1987
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1987

About this map

Kabetogama State Forest dominates this northern Minnesota landscape, where a network of water and timber history is etched into the terrain. The presence of an Old Railroad Grade snaking across the northern sections points to the legacy of the logging era in St. Louis County. This survey detail includes bathymetry and soundings for several significant water bodies, notably Myrtle Lake and Elbow Lake, providing a clear view of the underwater topography and depths as they were recorded in the late 1960s.

The Pelican River winds through the western half of the quadrangle, connecting smaller basins like Clear Lake and Ban Lake. Because this edition was updated in the mid-1980s with aerial photography from 1981, it preserves a record of land use and forest cover at a time when remote northern regions were being re-evaluated for conservation and state management. The map serves as a precise record of the shoreline and elevation of Little Elbow Lake and surrounding marshlands before modern shifts in regional hydrology.