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1978 Map of Wagon Wheel Hill

Name: 1978 Topographic Map of Wagon Wheel Hill
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1979
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1979

About this map

Wagon Wheel Hill stands as the central topographic landmark on this late-1970s survey of the plains along the Wells Co Kidder Co line. The landscape is defined by the unique prairie pothole ecology, with numerous small basins and larger bodies like Swan Lake scattered across the townships of Progress, Berlin, and Wallace. This era of land management is clearly visible through the designated National Waterfowl Production Area and Nwpa zones, which occupy large sections of the terrain to preserve vital migratory habitats.

Evidence of early rural infrastructure and local industry appears in the form of a lone Cem and several extraction sites, including Gravel Pits and a Gravel Pit near the center of the sheet. In the southern reach, a Flowing Well provides a specific point of interest for those studying the water table and hydrologic history of the Merkel and North districts during this period of North Dakota's agricultural development.