2011 Map of Wagon Wheel Hill

About this map

Wagon Wheel Hill stands as the central landmark in this portion of the Missouri Plateau, surrounded by a landscape defined by an intricate network of wetlands and prairie potholes. The terrain is characterized by numerous small, unnamed water bodies that fill the depressions between low rises, a classic representation of glacial drift topography in the Great Plains. Settlement patterns are dictated by the Public Land Survey System, with a rigid grid of rural roads such as 6th St SE and 37th Ave SE following section lines across the countryside. Near the eastern edge, County Hwy 71 provides the primary north-south transit corridor through this sparsely populated agricultural region, where the lack of formal town centers highlights the isolation of individual farmsteads and the dominance of the natural landforms over the built environment.