1900 Map of Roseburg

About this map

Roseburg serves as the central hub of this Douglas County landscape, where the confluence of the North Fork and South Fork Umpqua River shapes the local geography. Surveyed in the mid-1890s, the map reveals a network of fertile valleys such as Garden Valley and Coles Valley, which supported early settlement patterns before the extensive modern highway system. Transportation during this era relied heavily on the Southern Pacific and San Francisco RR and critical river crossings like the Umpqua Ferry and Lone Rock Ferry. From the southern village of Myrtle Creek to the northern reaches of Oakland, the topography is defined by prominent peaks like Tyee Mountain and Scott Mt., illustrating the varied terrain of the Umpqua Basin at the close of the nineteenth century.