2011 Map of Stanley SE

About this map

The Little Knife River winds through the Missouri Plateau in this part of Mountrail County, serving as the primary drainage for a landscape dotted with numerous small prairie potholes and wetlands. The local transportation network is defined by a rigorous section-line grid of rural roads, including 66th St NW and 80th Ave NW, which facilitate the region's agricultural operations. A notable diagonal path is cut by Old Hwy 2, reflecting an older transit corridor that preceded the strictly rectangular surveying of modern township roads. This area showcases the transition between organized farmstead access along routes like Clearlake Rd and the natural, irregular hydrology of the North Dakota plains, where seasonal water bodies gather in the depressions between low rises.