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1921 Map of Walla Walla

Name: 1921 Topographic Map of Walla Walla
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1921
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1921

About this map

Walla Walla and its surrounding wheat country are meticulously detailed in this early 20th-century survey, showing the complex web of irrigation and transportation that sustained the region. The map centers on the hub of Walla Walla, including the State Penitentiary and College Place, while the Whitman Monument stands as a marker of the area's frontier history. To the north, the vast Eureka Flat is etched with numerous hollows like Smith Hollow and Badger Hollow, connected by the Northern Pacific and Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co lines.

The topography transitions from the fertile valley floors of the Touchet River and Dry Creek into the rising elevations of the Blue Mountains and the Umatilla Nat'l Forest in the southeast. This survey records a landscape dotted with numerous rural schools, such as Pettijohn School and Bundy School, and small rail-side settlements like Waitsburg and Prescott, illustrating the dense agricultural settlement pattern before the consolidation of the mid-20th century.