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1900 Map of Wewoka

Name: 1900 Topographic Map of Wewoka
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1913
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1913

About this map

Wewoka and Holdenville stand as central hubs in this late-nineteenth-century survey of Indian Territory, a landscape defined by the political boundaries of the Seminole Nation, Creek Nation, and Choctaw Nation. The Oklahoma City and Gulf R. R. cuts through the southwestern corner, providing a modern transport link to emerging settlements like Grier and Marks Store. This era is characterized by the coexistence of established tribal centers and small trading outposts scattered across the drainages of the North Canadian River and Canadian River.

Remote outposts and community landmarks such as Arbeka, Mc Dermott, and the Baptist Mission reveal the early social fabric of the territory. The terrain is marked by significant watercourses like Wewoka Creek and Little River, with Bald Mtn. serving as a prominent navigational landmark. For genealogists and historians, the map preserves the exact locations of vanished sites such as Watsonville and Fentress before later land allotment and statehood fundamentally altered the region's geography.