1911 Map of Ray

Drainage systems like Tobacco Garden Creek and Little Muddy Creek carve through the high plains, illustrating the transition from the river bottomlands to the upland prairies. Notable landmarks such as Twelvemile Hill and Cassidy Spring provided essential markers for early travelers and settlers. This 1911 edition, surveyed by geographers such as Glenn S. Smith and Basil Duke, records the infrastructure of the homesteading era before later 20th-century developments altered the rural character of northwest North Dakota.