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2021 Map of White Butte

Name: 2021 Topographic Map of White Butte
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2021
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2021

About this map

The State Line between North Dakota and South Dakota bisects this landscape, separating Petrel in Adams County from the community of White Butte in Perkins County. This borderland geography is defined by the headwaters of Flat Creek and Duck Creek, where the prairie gives way to the open expanses of the Grand River National Grassland in the southern portion of the map.

Settlement patterns follow the east-west corridor of Railway Street, where the small siding of Petrel sits just north of the Petrel Cemetery. The local topography is dominated by the namesake landforms of the region, supported by the White Butte Reservoir and a network of section-line roads like White Butte Road and 4 Mile Road. These features document a late-modern view of a sparsely populated ranching and grassland environment that has maintained its rural character for generations.