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1964 Map of Norwegian Bay

Name: 1964 Topographic Map of Norwegian Bay
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1984
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1984

About this map

Vermilion Lake and its intricate northern shorelines dominate this mid-century portrait of St. Louis County. The landscape is defined by the expansive Kabetogama State Forest, where the settlement of Kabetogama sits along the southern forest boundary. This area, surveyed in the early 1960s, reveals a rugged geography of water and timber, centered on the complex navigation of Wakemup Narrows and Norwegian Bay.

Evidence of seasonal recreation and local infrastructure appears in the Wakemup Bay Campground and a nearby Bible Camp near Larsons Bay. Numerous family-named points and islands, such as Ackleys Point, Taylors Island, and Goodwill Island, provide essential landmarks for genealogists and local historians tracing the development of this lakefront territory before later modernization. Further south, the Sturgeon River State Forest indicates the protected status of the interior woods, which were once accessed via small waterways like North Creek and Black Creek.