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1900 Map of Okmulgee

Name: 1900 Topographic Map of Okmulgee
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1925
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1925

About this map

Okmulgee and its surrounding Creek Nation territory appear here in the final years before Oklahoma statehood. This survey, conducted primarily in 1896, reveals a landscape defined by the serpentine Arkansas River and the high ground of the Conjada Mts and Concharty Mtn. The map highlights the early religious and educational infrastructure of the region through the Wealaka Mission and a Mission located just east of the central settlement.

Transport and commerce are anchored by small frontier post offices and junctions like Wellington (Lee P.O.) and Council Hill. The drainage patterns of the Deep Fork and Verdigris River show the natural boundaries that dictated early land use and settlement clusters. Genealogists will find interest in the dispersed communities such as Choska and Posey, which served as local hubs in this river-valley economy.