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1893 Map of Georgetown

Name: 1893 Topographic Map of Georgetown
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1949
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1949

About this map

The confluence of the North Fork San Gabriel River and South Fork serves as the geographic anchor for Georgetown in the late 19th century. Surveyed by A.F. Dunnington in 1885, this study reveals a landscape defined by its burgeoning rail lines and frontier settlements. The International and Great Northern Railroad cuts a north-south path through the county seat, while the Austin and Northwestern Railroad services the western reaches near Liberty Hill and Leander.

Evidence of early central Texas settlement patterns appears in the distinction between Old Round Rock and the rail-aligned Round Rock, as well as the presence of vanished or renamed locales like Bagdad and Brueggerhoff. To the north, the terrain transitions from the high elevations of Post Oak Ridge and Pilot Knob toward the Lampasas River and Salado Creek, where small communities like Gabriel Mills and Corn Hill supported the agrarian economy before the massive suburban growth of the following century.