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1900 Map of Wewoka

Name: 1900 Topographic Map of Wewoka
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1949
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1949

About this map

The North Canadian River and the southern Canadian River snake across this late nineteenth-century landscape of the Indian Territory, a region defined by its tribal jurisdictions and burgeoning settlements. The topography, surveyed by D.C. Harrison and his team just years before Oklahoma statehood, meticulously documents the tribal boundaries between the Seminole Nation and Creek Nation, as well as the Choctaw Nation.

Genealogists will find interest in early community centers like Wewoka, Holdenville, and the remote Marks Store. The map preserves the locations of vital institutions such as the Baptist Mission near Wetumka and another Mission site along Long George Creek. Small nodes of activity like Arbeka, Bearden, and Watsonville appear connected by a complex web of early trails and wagon roads that traverse a landscape of creeks and summits like Bald Mtn..