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1947 Map of Sheyenne Lake

Name: 1947 Topographic Map of Sheyenne Lake
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1947
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1947

About this map

Sheridan and Wells counties meet across a landscape defined by the upper reaches of the Sheyenne River during the mid-1940s. The region is characterized by a dense grid of rural school districts, illustrating a high-density pattern of family farming that has since consolidated. Names like New Germantown Sch No 1, Schiller Sch No 4, and Boone Sch No 1 mark these local centers of community life alongside country churches such as St John Ch and the St Emanuel Gemeinde Cem.

Hydrography plays a significant role in this terrain, with the Sheyenne Lake and Coal Mine Lake providing prominent landmarks within the drainage basin. Smaller features like Lone Tree Lake and Mertz Slough suggest the variable prairie pothole geography common to this part of North Dakota, while family names on schools like Mertz Sch No 2 provide valuable touchstones for genealogists tracing early twentieth-century settlers in this prairie environment.