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2010 Map of Providence

Name: 2010 Topographic Map of Providence
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2010
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2010

About this map

The Swedish Methodist Church Cemetery stands as a central historical landmark in this rural landscape of western Minnesota. The map details the small settlement of Providence, which serves as a navigational anchor amidst a grid of section roads and regional thoroughfares like County Hwy-52 and County Hwy-23. The hydrology of the area is defined by the winding course of the Lac qui Parle River and its tributaries, including Spring Creek and Tenmile Creek.

Evidence of local water management is seen in the named County Ditch Number Seventy-nine, illustrating the agricultural engineering required for this prairie terrain. Small water bodies like Miller Lake dot the landscape, which is otherwise dominated by the orderly township-and-range road system, including 280th St and 250th Ave, providing a precise look at property access and land use at the end of the first decade of the 2000s.