2011 Map of Rolla NE

About this map

The Rolla Municipal Airport sits at the southwestern edge of this North Dakota landscape, a high-plains region characterized by a strictly organized grid of agricultural roads. The terrain is marked by numerous small, scattered wetlands and depressions typical of the prairie pothole region, which influence the path of local thoroughfares like Airport Rd and 55th Ave Ne. While much of the land is dedicated to farming, the presence of Bison Dr and a network of numbered section-line roads, such as 109th St Ne and 102nd St Ne, reveals the precise 20th-century surveying that defined Rolette County. This 2011 survey by the U.S. Geological Survey shows how modern aviation infrastructure integrates into a traditional rural section-line system.