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2010 Map of Schoolcraft Lake

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

USGS Topo · Published 2010

About this map

The Schoolcraft River flows through this corner of Hubbard County, anchoring a landscape defined by an intricate network of glacial lakes and wetlands. Near the river's upper reaches, the settlement of Yola marks a rare point of concentrated human activity in an area otherwise dominated by water and forest. The geography here is a complex arrangement of hydrologic features, where Buffalo Creek and Lake Alice Creek feed into a larger system of basins including the elongated Lake Alice and the centrally located Beaver Dam Lake.

Transportation through this dense lake country relies on routes like Spider Lake Forest Rd and Pine Lake County Forest Rd, which navigate the gaps between water bodies such as Spider Lake and Frielund Lake. This 2010 survey reflects the enduring character of northern Minnesota's lake plains, where the natural drainage of the Schoolcraft River valley remains the primary architectural force of the land.