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1898 Map of Tahlequah

Name: 1898 Topographic Map of Tahlequah
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1954
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1954

About this map

The Tahlequah capital of the Cherokee Nation serves as the central hub of this late-nineteenth-century survey, a landscape defined by the winding Illinois River and the rugged Brushy Mountains. Institutional history is prominent here, with the Cherokee Insane Asylum and the Female Seminary established near the town center. The era's educational and religious foundations are further marked by the Elm Springs Mission near Welling.

Transportation corridors of the St Louis and San Francisco RR and the Kansas City Southern RR cut through the territory, linking settlements like Westville, Stilwell, and Bunch. Topographers C.H. Fitch and Van H. Manning documented a complex network of family-named water bodies and hollows, such as Baumgartner Hollow and Walkingstick Hollow, which provide significant geographic detail for researchers of the Indian Territory before Oklahoma statehood.