1916 Map of Foraker

About this map

Midland Valley rail lines connect the small settlements of Osage County in this survey conducted just before the United States entered the First World War. The landscape is defined by an extensive network of rural education, featuring numerous family and locally named schoolhouses such as Red Eagle School, Beaver Creek School, and Brooks School distributed across the prairie. The town of Foraker serves as a primary hub along the railroad, while smaller outposts like Grainola and Frankfort mark the northern reaches near the Kansas border. The drainage patterns of Salt Creek and its many tributaries, including Dugout Creek and Potato Creek, illustrate the complex topography of the Big Hill region. This map captures a specific moment in Oklahoma's early statehood when the local economy was deeply tied to these rail-side cattle and grain shipping points.