2013 Map of Ponemah NE

About this map

Upper Red Lake dominates the southern half of this landscape, its vast northern shoreline marking the boundary between open water and the low-lying wetlands of Beltrami County. The terrain is defined by its drainage patterns, notably where the Deer River flows toward the lake and is intersected by the engineered channel of Ditch Number Thirty. Human presence is sparse in this 2013 survey, primarily indicated by the primitive path of Blanchard Forest Rd which parallels the lake shore. This region represents the characteristically flat, water-saturated geography of northern Minnesota, where natural river systems and early 20th-century drainage projects coexist. The map provides a precise look at the modern shoreline and the network of forest roads used to navigate the remote bog and peatland north of the water.