Rare Old Map of Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona by USGS, 1961: Show Low, Sitgreaves National Forest & Rainbow Lake
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Titled “McNary Quadrangle,” this United States Geological Survey topographical map was published in 1963 using survey data from 1961, capturing a richly...
Continue readingTitled “McNary Quadrangle,” this United States Geological Survey topographical map was published in 1963 using survey data from 1961, capturing a richly detailed portrait of Arizona’s White Mountains at a moment of mid-century change. Centered on McNary and the Pinetop-Lakeside area, the map records a high-elevation landscape far removed from the desert imagery often associated with the state. Its 1:62,500 scale allows both regional sweep and local precision, tracing roads, settlements, waterways, forest boundaries, and rugged relief. For collectors, it offers not only a technically refined USGS composition, but also a historical snapshot of communities and recreational landscapes just as modern development, tourism, and transportation were reshaping this cool, wooded corner of eastern Arizona.
The United States Geological Survey brought to this map the disciplined clarity that made its quadrangle series indispensable to engineers, geologists, foresters, planners, and explorers. Founded in 1879, the USGS became one of America’s great scientific mapping institutions, charged with documenting the nation’s terrain, water systems, mineral resources, and biological landscapes. In the “McNary Quadrangle,” that institutional precision is evident in the measured contouring, carefully labeled routes, and subtle differentiation of natural and built environments. The map’s green palette emphasizes wooded country and vegetated terrain, evoking the pine forests that define the region. Its style is practical, but also quietly elegant: a landscape translated into lines, symbols, and color with the authority of scientific observation.
Pinetop-Lakeside, prominently featured here, occupies one of Arizona’s most inviting mountain settings, known for cool summers, lakes, pine woods, and outdoor recreation. The map situates the community among places that have become closely associated with hiking, fishing, camping, and seasonal retreats, including Rainbow Lake, White Mountain Lake, Bonito Lake, and Fish Lake. Nearby Show Low appears as an important regional hub, while smaller names such as Indian Pine, Blue Ridge, Pineridge, Markham, and Clay Springs give the sheet a finely grained local character. The presence of Highway 260, U.S. Route 60, reservation roads, trails, and other pathways reveals a landscape connected by both modern travel corridors and older local routes through forest and upland terrain.
The topographic character of the map is especially compelling, with contour lines describing the folds, slopes, and uplands of a mountainous and hilly region. Black Canyon and the surrounding drainage patterns add drama to the terrain, while the broader setting within and near Sitgreaves National Forest underscores the area’s ecological richness. The White Mountains rise as an elevated refuge of ponderosa pine, lakes, meadows, and cooler air, a striking contrast to the arid basins and desert lowlands elsewhere in Arizona. Through its precise depiction of elevation and landform, the map communicates not merely location but physical experience: the climbs, ridges, watersheds, and forested expanses that shaped settlement, travel, and recreation in the region.
As a historical document, the “McNary Quadrangle” is particularly evocative because it records Pinetop-Lakeside and its surrounding communities before decades of subsequent growth and environmental change. Mid-century Arizona was entering a period of expanding road access, recreational development, and increasing interest in mountain retreats, and this map preserves the area’s geography at that threshold. Forest lands, lakes, reservation roads, and smaller settlements are shown in relation to emerging transportation routes and regional centers, offering insight into patterns of land use and movement. For anyone interested in Arizona history, USGS cartography, or the transformation of rural mountain communities, this map provides a refined and information-rich window onto the White Mountains in 1961.
Cities, towns and places on this map
- Pinetop-Lakeside
- McNary
- Show Low
- Indian Pine
- Sitgreaves National Forest
- Lakeside
- Blue Ridge
- Rainbow Lake
- White Mountain Lake
- Black Canyon
- Bonito Lake
- Pineridge
- Fish Lake
- Markham
- Greer
- Clay Springs
- Forest Lakes
- Highway 260
- U.S. Route 60
- Reservation roads
- Trails and other pathways
Historical context & cartographic details
- Map title: McNary Quadrangle
- Map type and scale: Historical 1:62,500 topographical map
- Date: Created using 1961 survey data and published with a 1963 imprint
- Publisher: Produced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS)
- USGS context: The USGS is a U.S. government scientific agency known for mapping, geology, hydrology, biology, and broader Earth science research
- Cartographic style: Uses a rich green color palette to show vegetation and terrain
- Topographic detail: Includes contour lines to represent elevation changes across mountainous and hilly terrain
- Historical significance: Valuable for understanding land use, environmental change, and urban development in the region since the early 1960s
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.
Titled “McNary Quadrangle,” this United States Geological Survey topographical map was published in 1963 using survey data from 1961, capturing a richly detailed portrait of Arizona’s White Mountains at a moment of mid-century change. Centered on McNary and the Pinetop-Lakeside area, the map records a high-elevation landscape far removed from the desert imagery often associated with the state. Its 1:62,500 scale allows both regional sweep and local precision, tracing roads, settlements, waterways, forest boundaries, and rugged relief. For collectors, it offers not only a technically refined USGS composition, but also a historical snapshot of communities and recreational landscapes just as modern development, tourism, and transportation were reshaping this cool, wooded corner of eastern Arizona.
The United States Geological Survey brought to this map the disciplined clarity that made its quadrangle series indispensable to engineers, geologists, foresters, planners, and explorers. Founded in 1879, the USGS became one of America’s great scientific mapping institutions, charged with documenting the nation’s terrain, water systems, mineral resources, and biological landscapes. In the “McNary Quadrangle,” that institutional precision is evident in the measured contouring, carefully labeled routes, and subtle differentiation of natural and built environments. The map’s green palette emphasizes wooded country and vegetated terrain, evoking the pine forests that define the region. Its style is practical, but also quietly elegant: a landscape translated into lines, symbols, and color with the authority of scientific observation.
Pinetop-Lakeside, prominently featured here, occupies one of Arizona’s most inviting mountain settings, known for cool summers, lakes, pine woods, and outdoor recreation. The map situates the community among places that have become closely associated with hiking, fishing, camping, and seasonal retreats, including Rainbow Lake, White Mountain Lake, Bonito Lake, and Fish Lake. Nearby Show Low appears as an important regional hub, while smaller names such as Indian Pine, Blue Ridge, Pineridge, Markham, and Clay Springs give the sheet a finely grained local character. The presence of Highway 260, U.S. Route 60, reservation roads, trails, and other pathways reveals a landscape connected by both modern travel corridors and older local routes through forest and upland terrain.
The topographic character of the map is especially compelling, with contour lines describing the folds, slopes, and uplands of a mountainous and hilly region. Black Canyon and the surrounding drainage patterns add drama to the terrain, while the broader setting within and near Sitgreaves National Forest underscores the area’s ecological richness. The White Mountains rise as an elevated refuge of ponderosa pine, lakes, meadows, and cooler air, a striking contrast to the arid basins and desert lowlands elsewhere in Arizona. Through its precise depiction of elevation and landform, the map communicates not merely location but physical experience: the climbs, ridges, watersheds, and forested expanses that shaped settlement, travel, and recreation in the region.
As a historical document, the “McNary Quadrangle” is particularly evocative because it records Pinetop-Lakeside and its surrounding communities before decades of subsequent growth and environmental change. Mid-century Arizona was entering a period of expanding road access, recreational development, and increasing interest in mountain retreats, and this map preserves the area’s geography at that threshold. Forest lands, lakes, reservation roads, and smaller settlements are shown in relation to emerging transportation routes and regional centers, offering insight into patterns of land use and movement. For anyone interested in Arizona history, USGS cartography, or the transformation of rural mountain communities, this map provides a refined and information-rich window onto the White Mountains in 1961.
Cities, towns and places on this map
- Pinetop-Lakeside
- McNary
- Show Low
- Indian Pine
- Sitgreaves National Forest
- Lakeside
- Blue Ridge
- Rainbow Lake
- White Mountain Lake
- Black Canyon
- Bonito Lake
- Pineridge
- Fish Lake
- Markham
- Greer
- Clay Springs
- Forest Lakes
- Highway 260
- U.S. Route 60
- Reservation roads
- Trails and other pathways
Historical context & cartographic details
- Map title: McNary Quadrangle
- Map type and scale: Historical 1:62,500 topographical map
- Date: Created using 1961 survey data and published with a 1963 imprint
- Publisher: Produced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS)
- USGS context: The USGS is a U.S. government scientific agency known for mapping, geology, hydrology, biology, and broader Earth science research
- Cartographic style: Uses a rich green color palette to show vegetation and terrain
- Topographic detail: Includes contour lines to represent elevation changes across mountainous and hilly terrain
- Historical significance: Valuable for understanding land use, environmental change, and urban development in the region since the early 1960s
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.
Many of our maps and art prints are chosen as thoughtful gifts for homes, offices, studies and meaningful places.
Choose a framed option for the easiest ready-to-hang gift, or choose an unframed print if the recipient may prefer to select their own frame.
We make orders locally in 23 countries around the world, so gifts can often be produced close to the recipient. This helps them arrive faster, travel more safely, and avoid customs or import duty surprises.
- We can deliver directly to the recipient
- Framed pieces arrive ready to hang
- Unframed prints are carefully packed in a strong protective tube
- Almost every order is made locally, for faster, safer gifting
- 90-day returns give the recipient time to decide
If you are not sure what to choose, please contact us. We can help you pick the right map, size, finish or delivery option.
Most orders are made locally and delivered in around 2–3 working days, depending on the product, size and destination.
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.
If you need your order by a particular date, please contact us before ordering. We’ll check the best production route and delivery option for your location.
Express delivery is available at checkout for most countries. Next-day delivery is available in the UK, US, Singapore and the UAE.
Your order is covered by our 90-day returns policy and 10-year guarantee.
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.
We work with interior designers, hospitality businesses, property professionals, offices and corporate buyers on individual pieces and larger coordinated projects.
This map can be adapted for a particular wall, room or project, and our workshop can help coordinate the dimensions, material and framing before production.
- Exact, oversized and made-to-measure dimensions
- Custom framing, mounting and alternative materials
- Coordinated pieces for several rooms or locations
- Map personalisation, to mark important locations or add extra details
- Map and framing guidance from our workshop
- Local production for projects around the world
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.
We’ve been restoring and producing maps and art prints since 1984, and we stand behind every piece.
Every order is covered by our 10-year guarantee and damage-free delivery guarantee. If your piece arrives damaged, we’ll replace or remake it free of charge. If anything else isn’t right, contact our workshop team and we’ll put it right promptly.
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