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2016 Map of Oza Tanka Lakebed

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

USGS Topo · Published 2016

About this map

The Oza Tanka Lakebed defines this portion of Faribault County, representing a landscape transformed by intensive drainage and agricultural engineering. The terrain is crisscrossed by an extensive network of water management features, including County Ditch Number Seventy, Judicial Ditch Number Six, and County Ditch Number Five, which channel water toward the E Br Blue Earth River. These systems reflect the mid-to-late 20th-century push to reclaim wetlands for prairie cultivation, leaving the former lakebed as a distinct topographic depression.

Genealogists will find several burial sites preserved amidst the grid of country roads, such as Saint Marys Cem, the Ellingson Family Cem, and Dell Cem in the southern sections. The map also includes King Cem near the western boundary. The regular intervals of local routes like Co RD 16 and 150th ST provide a clear spatial framework for tracing early 21st-century property boundaries and family homesteads in this rural Minnesota landscape.