Waters Hill and the adjacent Hill Spring define the eastern reach of this prairie landscape in Faulk County, South Dakota. This 2012 survey reveals a classic rural section-line grid system, where long stretches of unpaved roads such as 165th St and 342nd Ave partition the open territory. The terrain is characterized by numerous small, seasonal prairie potholes and depressions scattered across the landscape, illustrating the internal drainage patterns typical of this region. The absence of a centralized town site highlights a late-twentieth and early-twenty-first-century agrarian structure where the landscape is organized by connectivity between disparate farmsteads and fields rather than a concentrated village center. Named topographic features like Waters Hill provide essential landmarks for navigation across this otherwise uniform terrain, serving as vital reference points for local history and land management.
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1950 · Rezac Lake NE
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1950 · Rezac Lake
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1951 · Rezac Lake NE
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1951 · Rice Lake
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1951 · Orient SW
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1951 · Rezac Lake
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1951 · Orient NW
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1951 · Rezac Lake NW
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1952 · Burkmere
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1952 · Onaka SW
USGS Topo · 1:24,000