2012 Map of Schumacher Lake SW

About this map

Glueckstahl Cem and Calvin Cem anchor this stretch of McPherson County, where the landscape is defined by the glacial depressions and wetlands of the Missouri Coteau. Surveyed in 2012, the map shows a strictly geometric section-line road network, including north-south corridors like 338th Ave and 340th Ave that intersect east-west routes such as 109th St and 111th St. These burials and the surrounding grid of unpaved roads suggest the enduring footprint of rural prairie settlement in a region dominated by scattered seasonal ponds and internal drainage basins characteristic of the South Dakota plains.