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SOURCES
1915 Railroad Maps
This Atlas was published in 1915 by the American Geographic Institute of Indianapolis, Indiana. It includes one map of "Principal Automobile Highways" in the United States, and a separate page for each state showing its railroads.
The original maps are approximately 10 x 14", with extremely fine print. The three strips (Western, Central, and Eastern OK) still have rather small print, but the files are relatively large so unless you're interested in a multi-county area or want to print out a copy it's best to go straight to the county maps. Each county map was enlarged before scanning, so they are much easier to read on screen.
Oklahoma had very few highways in 1915. There were local roads, but the railroads and trolleys provided the primary means of transportation between cities. If you are looking for information about specific rail routes, go to the Railroads page, where you'll find the stations on each line, or Trolleys, where you'll find the areas covered.
Rivers and creeks are also shown, along with many populated places that have since disappeared -- some of which are quite obscure. Vittum, for example, is not on the Oklahoma Transportation Department list of locations or in Oklahoma Place Names, and the GNIS has its location simply as Logan County-- but it's in this Atlas.
Our copy belonged to Ross LOVELL and his wife Cecile COLE (whom I've been known to refer to affectionately as "my-grandmother-the-packrat"). All kidding aside, I do appreciate the keepsakes handed down to me -- and because the copyright has expired I'm sharing the information my family has preserved in hopes that it will also be of benefit to others.
1972 USGS Map of Oklahoma
The 1972 USGS Geological Survey map is 1:500,000 scale - so large that to put it on the Web in near-life-size form each county has been placed on a separate page. These maps include Township and Range grids, with each township covering almost one square inch. They show not just today's cities and towns, but many small communities that no longer have their own Post Offices or business districts.
DoT Maps & Section-Township-Range Locations
These detailed county maps were originally scanned by Mike Taylor and presented on OKGenWeb with permission of the Oklahoma Highway Department. For details, see his Oklahoma Towns page. They may be freely distributed or printed and included in publications as reference material, but must not be resold. These files are still available for downloading, but some are extremely large so the goal of this latest project has been to provide versions that can be viewed online.
The version presented here breaks each of those county maps into a set of detailed maps that show roads, creeks, cemeteries - even churches, schools, and rural dwellings. Usually, one page covers one numbered township consisting of 36 sections (a square, six miles on each side), but in some cases irregular county lines have resulted in more or less than 36 sections per page.
The original list of locations was also provided by Mike, as an OCR-produced file of a list produced by the Oklahoma Highway Department. A few more locations have been added and a number of corrections have been made by comparing the list with the maps themselves. For example, the OCR process often renders the number "1" as the letter "I" and the number "0" as the letter "O". To the human eye the difference is superficial, but all such instances we've detected have been corrected so that the search engine can function more effectively.
Triangulation Stations
These have been read from the DoT maps. The 1972 USGS Geological Survey map is 1:500,000 scale - so large that to put it on the Web in near-life-size form each county has been placed on a separate page. These maps include Township and Range grids, with each township covering almost one square inch. They show not just today's cities and towns, but many small communities that no longer have their own Post Offices or business districts.
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