2024 Map of Upham SE

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J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge dominates this landscape in McHenry County, where the meandering course of the Souris River creates a complex network of wetlands and oxbows. The river's winding path through the prairie is joined from the east by Willow Creek, forming a critical riparian corridor in the North Dakota plains. The survey illustrates a highly structured grid of section lines and rural roads, such as 83rd St NE and 75th St N, which overlay the natural hydrology. This intersection of a strictly surveyed township-and-range system with the fluid, shifting banks of the Souris demonstrates the 21st-century management of public conservation lands alongside established agricultural corridors like Co Hwy 17.