2013 Map of Strandquist

About this map

Strandquist sits at the heart of this Marshall County survey, where a strict grid of section roads like 190th Ave NW and 420th St NW organizes the prairie landscape. The area is characterized by its numerous small burial grounds, which reflect the early ethnic and denominational clusters of the region, including Augustana Lutheran Cem, Mission Covenant Cem, and the Norwegian Cem. These sites, along with the Bethesda Cem and English Cem, offer significant geographic markers for genealogical research in this rural corridor. In the southern portion of the map, the meandering path of the Middle River breaks the geometry of the surrounding farmland, while the engineering of the Judicial Ditch Number Nineteen in the northeast demonstrates the historical efforts to manage drainage across these flat northwestern Minnesota plains.