{"product_id":"old-map-of-high-point-north-carolina-by-usgs-1949-jamestown-oak-hollow-lake","title":"Old Map of High Point, North Carolina by USGS, 1949 – Jamestown \u0026 Oak Hollow Lake","description":"\u003cp\u003e“High Point West,” published in 1964 by the U.S. Geological Survey using survey data from 1949, presents a compelling mid-century portrait of High Point, North Carolina, and its western surroundings. Although issued within the USGS topographical tradition, this sheet is especially notable for its planimetric character: it emphasizes horizontal relationships, roads, railways, settlement patterns, watercourses, and land use without the distraction of elevation contours. The result is a lucid, almost architectural view of a city in transition. Red shading marks populated and built-up areas, green identifies wooded or undeveloped land, and white opens the landscape into fields, corridors, and clearings, creating a crisp visual language for reading post-war urban expansion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProduced by the U.S. Geological Survey, the map belongs to a long American tradition of precise civic and geographic documentation. The USGS was not merely mapping scenery; it was creating practical instruments for engineers, planners, municipalities, transportation agencies, and citizens navigating a rapidly modernizing country. In this context, “High Point West” records more than location: it captures infrastructure, settlement density, and the anatomy of a growing Southern city. Its planimetric approach gives particular prominence to the city’s human-made framework—streets, rail lines, highways, neighborhoods, and public spaces—making it an unusually revealing document of how High Point was organized and connected in the decades after the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe geography shown centers on High Point and extends toward Homewood, Jamestown, and the surrounding suburban and semi-rural communities. Jordan Creek and nearby waterways thread through the sheet, anchoring the urban fabric to the natural landscape. The area around Oak Hollow Lake and adjoining drainage systems evokes the importance of water features in shaping later development, recreation, and residential growth. City parks, community areas, wooded tracts, and open land appear in deliberate contrast to dense red urban zones, giving the map a layered sense of place. It shows High Point not as an isolated city, but as part of a broader Piedmont landscape of creeks, roads, neighborhoods, and emerging metropolitan connections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTransportation is one of the map’s most historically engaging themes. Interstate 85 and North Carolina Highway 68 appear as defining arteries, signaling the automobile age and the increasingly regional scale of commerce and commuting. Railways and related infrastructure recall High Point’s deep association with manufacturing, distribution, and especially the furniture industry, for which the city became nationally renowned. The map captures a moment when older rail-centered patterns coexisted with newer highway-oriented development, revealing the infrastructure that supported both industrial production and suburban growth. Residential neighborhoods spread outward from established cores, while corridors of movement knit together High Point, Jamestown, and nearby communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a visual object, the map is distinguished by its restrained but effective color system. Red, green, and white do not merely decorate the landscape; they classify it, allowing the eye to distinguish built environments from forests, open land, and civic space with remarkable immediacy. The absence of contour lines heightens this clarity, turning attention toward the lived geography of streets, blocks, parks, rail beds, and water features. “High Point West” is therefore both a practical government map and a historical snapshot of mid-twentieth-century urban form. It preserves the texture of a North Carolina city poised between established townscape, industrial identity, and expanding post-war suburbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCities, towns and places on this map\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHigh Point\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHomewood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJamestown\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOak Hollow Lake\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJordan Creek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI-85 (Interstate 85)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eN.C. 68 (North Carolina Highway 68)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCity parks and community areas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eResidential neighborhoods\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRailways and related infrastructure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNearby bodies of water and natural features\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHistorical context \u0026amp; cartographic details\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMap title: \u003cem\u003eHigh Point West\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProduced by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBased on survey data from 1949 and published in 1964\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUSGS topographical map with planimetric mapping characteristics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFocuses on horizontal distances and detailed surface features without elevation contours\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUses red, green, and white areas to distinguish populated places, forests, undeveloped land, and other land-use types\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHighlights the urban layout and surrounding natural landscape of High Point, North Carolina\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReflects mid-20th-century urban development and post-war infrastructure growth in the region\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLooking for a particular place?\u003c\/strong\u003e Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, \u003ca target=\"”_blank”\" href=\"\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eask our workshop to check before you order\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDetailed 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eget in touch\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe model in the listing images is holding the 16x20in (40x50cm) version of this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere personalisation is available, you can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. \u003ca target=\"”_blank”\" href=\"\/pages\/map-personalisation\"\u003eSee personalised map examples\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery 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. 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