2011 Map of Senior Lake

About this map

Senior Lake and Rush Lake dot this corner of Kidder County, representing the characteristic prairie pothole region of North Dakota. The landscape is defined by a rigorous section-line road grid, including 28th Ave SE and 4th St SE, which reveals the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first-century agricultural organization of the Great Plains. This 2011 survey by the U.S. Geological Survey illustrates how the natural topography of scattered wetlands persists amidst the rectilinear human interventions of rural development. The sparse distribution of named features emphasizes the vast, open nature of this prairie environment, where transport routes like 10th St SE provide the primary framework for movement across the wetland-rich terrain.