2024 Map of Rock Lake SE

About this map

Ellison Cem sits as a lonely landmark within the sprawling section-line grid of rural Towner County in this contemporary digital survey. The landscape is defined by the Public Land Survey System, specifically t161n r65w and surrounding townships, which dictate the placement of a rigid road network. Gravel routes such as 100th St NE and 75th Ave NE bisect a prairie terrain dotted with hundreds of small wetlands and potholes. This pattern reveals the persistent agrarian structure of the North Dakota plains, where the 19th-century township-and-range system continues to organize the modern movement of people and commerce through the Red River Valley hinterlands.