2020 Map of Plaza NW

About this map

Rolling Prairie Cem stands as a lonely landmark in the northwestern corner of this landscape, a site of significant genealogical interest for families of the North Dakota plains. The terrain is defined by the prairie pothole region's characteristic geology, where countless small wetlands and depressions punctuate the high plains of Ward County and Mountrail County. The most prominent water feature, Carpenter Lake, sits in the northern reaches, surrounded by a sparse network of section-line roads such as 57th St NW and 63rd Ave NW. This survey reflects a modern agricultural era where the grid of the Public Land Survey System remains the primary structure for movement and land management. The absence of concentrated towns emphasizes the rural, dispersed nature of this portion of the state, where history is traced through small burial grounds and the natural shifts of seasonal water bodies.