2017 Map of Tunbridge

About this map

The settlement of Tunbridge and the southwestern edge of Rugby anchor this landscape in Pierce County, revealing the rigid, rectilinear grid of the prairie north of the geographical center of North America. The terrain is defined by a dense network of sectional roads, including 66th St NE and 24th Ave Ne, which carve the landscape into distinct agricultural blocks. A significant hydrologic feature, Sand Slough, occupies the northern central portion of the quadrangle, surrounded by numerous unnamed wetlands and ephemeral ponds that reflect the glaciated pothole geology of the region. This 2017 survey demonstrates how the township and range system, marked here by boundaries like t156n r73w, continues to dictate the human footprint on the land, with scattered homesteads and farmsteads positioned along the intersections of these gravel and dirt corridors.