Rare Old Map of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by USGS, 1956: Norman, Moore & Lake Draper
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Published in 1970 using survey data from 1956, the United States Geological Survey’s “Oklahoma City” captures the capital of Oklahoma at a...
Continua a leggerePublished in 1970 using survey data from 1956, the United States Geological Survey’s “Oklahoma City” captures the capital of Oklahoma at a fascinating moment between postwar expansion and modern metropolitan consolidation. At the precise 1:24,000 scale for which USGS quadrangles are prized, the map presents the city not as an abstraction, but as a measured landscape of streets, rail lines, waterways, public grounds, and developing neighborhoods. Its title is deceptively simple: Oklahoma City here becomes both urban center and geographic subject, a place where civic growth, prairie terrain, and transportation infrastructure are all rendered with scientific clarity. The map belongs to a period when Oklahoma City was extending outward, absorbing the rhythms of automobile-age America while retaining visible traces of its older gridded core.
The USGS style gives this map its quiet authority. Color is used with disciplined purpose, distinguishing built-up areas, water features, roads, public lands, and contour-defined relief without overwhelming the eye. Elevation lines articulate the subtle topography of central Oklahoma, where broad drainage basins, low rises, and engineered routes shape the city’s form. Roads are annotated with the precision expected of federal mapping, including major corridors such as Interstate 40, Interstate 44, U.S. Route 77, and U.S. Route 62. Numbered streets and addressing grids reveal the rational order of the urban plan, while smaller neighborhood roads show the finer texture of mid-century residential expansion. The result is both an instrument of orientation and a portrait of civic structure.
Oklahoma City’s metropolitan landscape is shown in relation to surrounding communities that helped define its twentieth-century growth. Places such as Del City, Moore, Yukon, Mustang, Norman, and Blanchard evoke the wider pattern of suburbanization, commuter movement, and regional development spreading across the central Oklahoma plain. The map reflects an era when highways increasingly determined the connections between home, industry, commerce, and public life. Interstates and federal routes appear as powerful organizing lines, binding older street networks to the emerging metropolitan system. Within Oklahoma City itself, the dense grid of numbered streets and neighborhoods suggests a capital in motion: expanding outward, accommodating population shifts, and remaking its edges as new subdivisions and road improvements altered the relationship between city and countryside.
The natural geography is no less compelling than the urban detail. The North Canadian River threads through the Oklahoma City landscape, its course a defining feature in the region’s drainage and settlement history, while the South Canadian River marks a broader geographic presence to the south. Lake Draper appears as an important body of water within the metropolitan setting, reflecting the role of reservoirs and managed landscapes in sustaining a growing city. The Stinchcomb Wildlife Refuge adds another layer of interest, showing protected habitat within reach of urban development. Parks and public lands punctuate the map, reminding the viewer that Oklahoma City’s identity has long been shaped by the interaction of prairie environment, river corridors, recreation areas, and engineered water resources.
As a historical document, this map preserves Oklahoma City before later waves of redevelopment, population redistribution, and infrastructure transformation reshaped the region. The 1956 survey data records a postwar city still in the process of becoming a modern metropolitan capital, while the 1970 imprint situates it at the threshold of further change. Comparing its carefully delineated streets, parks, highways, and water features with the city known today reveals decades of expansion and reconfiguration. It is especially evocative for understanding how mid-century planners, surveyors, and residents perceived the city: as a measured landscape of grids and corridors, but also as a living place shaped by rivers, reservoirs, neighborhoods, and the open horizons of central Oklahoma.
Cities, towns and places on this map
- Oklahoma City
- Mustang
- Yukon
- Del City
- Norman
- Blanchard
- Moore
- Stinchcomb Wildlife Refuge
- Lake Draper
- North Canadian River
- South Canadian River
- Interstate 40
- Interstate 44
- U.S. Route 77
- U.S. Route 62
- Various parks within Oklahoma City
- Neighborhoods within Oklahoma City
- Addressing grids, including numbered streets
Historical context & cartographic details
- Produced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), known for authoritative topographical mapping.
- Historical 1:24,000 topographical map of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the surrounding area.
- Based on survey data from 1956, with a 1970 imprint.
- Shows Oklahoma City during a period of notable mid-20th-century growth and urbanization.
- Reflects changes in infrastructure, population distribution, and urban development since publication.
- Uses color to represent elevation and land use.
- Includes detailed annotations for roads, rivers, public lands, and urban areas.
- Depicts geographical features such as elevation contours, water bodies, and developed areas in a clear, delineated style.
Looking for a particular place? Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, ask our workshop to check before you order.
Detailed maps are especially rewarding at larger sizes, where names, boundaries and decorative features have more room to be appreciated. Use the close-up preview and size guide to choose the right scale for your wall.
This map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please get in touch.
The model in the listing images is holding the 16x20in (40x50cm) version of this map.
Where personalisation is available, you can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. See personalised map examples.
Every piece is printed to museum-grade archival standards using fade-resistant pigment inks on acid-free matte paper. Choose an unframed map print, framed map or canvas using the finish options above. Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.
With its rich detail and strong sense of place, this map makes a considered gift for a new home, anniversary, retirement or anyone with a personal connection to the area shown. Still deciding? Explore our collection of rare old and vintage maps to discover another place, period or style.
This map is also available as a float framed canvas, sometimes known as a shadow gap framed canvas or canvas floater. The map is printed on artist's cotton canvas and then stretched over a handmade box frame. We then "float" the canvas inside a wooden frame, which is available in a range of colours (black, dark brown, oak, antique gold and white). This is a wonderful way to present a map without glazing in front. See some examples of float framed canvas maps and explore the differences between my different finishes.
For something truly unique, this map is also available in "Unique 3D", our trademarked process that dramatically transforms the map so that it has a wonderful sense of depth. We combine the original map with detailed topography and elevation data, so that mountains and the terrain really "pop". For more info and examples of 3D maps, check my Unique 3D page.
Published in 1970 using survey data from 1956, the United States Geological Survey’s “Oklahoma City” captures the capital of Oklahoma at a fascinating moment between postwar expansion and modern metropolitan consolidation. At the precise 1:24,000 scale for which USGS quadrangles are prized, the map presents the city not as an abstraction, but as a measured landscape of streets, rail lines, waterways, public grounds, and developing neighborhoods. Its title is deceptively simple: Oklahoma City here becomes both urban center and geographic subject, a place where civic growth, prairie terrain, and transportation infrastructure are all rendered with scientific clarity. The map belongs to a period when Oklahoma City was extending outward, absorbing the rhythms of automobile-age America while retaining visible traces of its older gridded core.
The USGS style gives this map its quiet authority. Color is used with disciplined purpose, distinguishing built-up areas, water features, roads, public lands, and contour-defined relief without overwhelming the eye. Elevation lines articulate the subtle topography of central Oklahoma, where broad drainage basins, low rises, and engineered routes shape the city’s form. Roads are annotated with the precision expected of federal mapping, including major corridors such as Interstate 40, Interstate 44, U.S. Route 77, and U.S. Route 62. Numbered streets and addressing grids reveal the rational order of the urban plan, while smaller neighborhood roads show the finer texture of mid-century residential expansion. The result is both an instrument of orientation and a portrait of civic structure.
Oklahoma City’s metropolitan landscape is shown in relation to surrounding communities that helped define its twentieth-century growth. Places such as Del City, Moore, Yukon, Mustang, Norman, and Blanchard evoke the wider pattern of suburbanization, commuter movement, and regional development spreading across the central Oklahoma plain. The map reflects an era when highways increasingly determined the connections between home, industry, commerce, and public life. Interstates and federal routes appear as powerful organizing lines, binding older street networks to the emerging metropolitan system. Within Oklahoma City itself, the dense grid of numbered streets and neighborhoods suggests a capital in motion: expanding outward, accommodating population shifts, and remaking its edges as new subdivisions and road improvements altered the relationship between city and countryside.
The natural geography is no less compelling than the urban detail. The North Canadian River threads through the Oklahoma City landscape, its course a defining feature in the region’s drainage and settlement history, while the South Canadian River marks a broader geographic presence to the south. Lake Draper appears as an important body of water within the metropolitan setting, reflecting the role of reservoirs and managed landscapes in sustaining a growing city. The Stinchcomb Wildlife Refuge adds another layer of interest, showing protected habitat within reach of urban development. Parks and public lands punctuate the map, reminding the viewer that Oklahoma City’s identity has long been shaped by the interaction of prairie environment, river corridors, recreation areas, and engineered water resources.
As a historical document, this map preserves Oklahoma City before later waves of redevelopment, population redistribution, and infrastructure transformation reshaped the region. The 1956 survey data records a postwar city still in the process of becoming a modern metropolitan capital, while the 1970 imprint situates it at the threshold of further change. Comparing its carefully delineated streets, parks, highways, and water features with the city known today reveals decades of expansion and reconfiguration. It is especially evocative for understanding how mid-century planners, surveyors, and residents perceived the city: as a measured landscape of grids and corridors, but also as a living place shaped by rivers, reservoirs, neighborhoods, and the open horizons of central Oklahoma.
Cities, towns and places on this map
- Oklahoma City
- Mustang
- Yukon
- Del City
- Norman
- Blanchard
- Moore
- Stinchcomb Wildlife Refuge
- Lake Draper
- North Canadian River
- South Canadian River
- Interstate 40
- Interstate 44
- U.S. Route 77
- U.S. Route 62
- Various parks within Oklahoma City
- Neighborhoods within Oklahoma City
- Addressing grids, including numbered streets
Historical context & cartographic details
- Produced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), known for authoritative topographical mapping.
- Historical 1:24,000 topographical map of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the surrounding area.
- Based on survey data from 1956, with a 1970 imprint.
- Shows Oklahoma City during a period of notable mid-20th-century growth and urbanization.
- Reflects changes in infrastructure, population distribution, and urban development since publication.
- Uses color to represent elevation and land use.
- Includes detailed annotations for roads, rivers, public lands, and urban areas.
- Depicts geographical features such as elevation contours, water bodies, and developed areas in a clear, delineated style.
Looking for a particular place? Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, ask our workshop to check before you order.
Detailed maps are especially rewarding at larger sizes, where names, boundaries and decorative features have more room to be appreciated. Use the close-up preview and size guide to choose the right scale for your wall.
This map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please get in touch.
The model in the listing images is holding the 16x20in (40x50cm) version of this map.
Where personalisation is available, you can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. See personalised map examples.
Every piece is printed to museum-grade archival standards using fade-resistant pigment inks on acid-free matte paper. Choose an unframed map print, framed map or canvas using the finish options above. Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.
With its rich detail and strong sense of place, this map makes a considered gift for a new home, anniversary, retirement or anyone with a personal connection to the area shown. Still deciding? Explore our collection of rare old and vintage maps to discover another place, period or style.
This map is also available as a float framed canvas, sometimes known as a shadow gap framed canvas or canvas floater. The map is printed on artist's cotton canvas and then stretched over a handmade box frame. We then "float" the canvas inside a wooden frame, which is available in a range of colours (black, dark brown, oak, antique gold and white). This is a wonderful way to present a map without glazing in front. See some examples of float framed canvas maps and explore the differences between my different finishes.
For something truly unique, this map is also available in "Unique 3D", our trademarked process that dramatically transforms the map so that it has a wonderful sense of depth. We combine the original map with detailed topography and elevation data, so that mountains and the terrain really "pop". For more info and examples of 3D maps, check my Unique 3D page.
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We print and frame maps and artwork in 23 countries around the world, so your order is usually made close to you or your recipient. That means faster delivery, less time in transit, and no customs or import duty surprises.
Personalised and customised pieces usually take an extra 1–2 working days, because we prepare your design and send it to you for approval before printing.
Very large framed orders can take a little longer, as they need extra care in production and delivery.
Every order is carefully packaged: unframed prints are sent in a strong protective tube, while framed pieces are securely packed with protective materials around the frame.
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Our standard frame is a gallery-style black ash hardwood frame, with a simple, modern look. It is approximately 20mm (0.8in) wide. You can also view some lovely customer photos of framed maps and art.
We use super-clear acrylic glazing, also known as Perspex or Acrylite, instead of traditional glass. It is lighter, safer, and has lower reflectivity, giving the artwork a clearer, cleaner appearance.
Six standard frame colours are available at no extra cost: black, dark brown, dark grey, oak, white, and antique gold. Custom framing and mounting/matting is also available for customers looking for something more specific.
Most maps, art prints, and illustrations are also available as a framed canvas. We use matte cotton canvas, stretch it over a sustainably sourced wooden box frame, and then float the piece within a wooden outer frame. The finished result is beautifully presented, with no glazing between you and the artwork.
All frames are supplied ready to hang, with either string or brackets fitted to the back. Very large frames will include heavy-duty hanging plates and/or a mounting baton. If you have any questions, please get in touch.
We can also supply old maps and artwork on canvas, foam board, cotton rag, and other materials.
If you would prefer to frame your map or artwork yourself, please read our size guide before ordering.
Every Unique Maps piece begins with an authentic cartographic source or an original design from our London studio.
For our historic maps, we source rare originals from libraries, archives, auction houses and private collections around the world. We carefully restore each map for print—repairing age-related damage, balancing colour and improving clarity while preserving its original detail, texture and character.
Once restored, the map is prepared for your chosen size and finish. Your piece is then printed and, where selected, framed close to its delivery destination.
Our map prints use acid-free 200gsm archival matte paper and fade-resistant pigment inks, creating a rich, non-glossy finish designed to last. Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.
Canvas, cotton-rag and other specialist presentations are also available. Learn more about our materials and finishes.
Personalising your map
You can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. For personalised designs, we send a proof before printing and you can request changes before approval.
For more complex bespoke commissions, contact our design team.
Original or Aged
Choose Original for true-to-source colour, or Aged for a warmer, richer antique character created with our specialist ageing process. See examples of our Aged maps.
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