{"product_id":"old-map-of-georgetown-texas-by-usgs-1925-cedar-park-san-gabriel-river","title":"Old Map of Georgetown, Texas by USGS, 1925 – Cedar Park \u0026 San Gabriel River","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1925 by the United States Geological Survey, “Georgetown 4-b” presents Georgetown, Texas, and the surrounding Williamson County countryside at a scale of 1:48,000, using survey data compiled by S. E. Clement. The map belongs to the disciplined, highly legible tradition of early twentieth-century USGS topography, where settlement, transportation, watercourses, and relief are brought together in a single analytical landscape. Its “advance” designation suggests a working or preliminary issue, emphasizing practical utility as much as finished elegance. Particularly striking is the use of fine contouring, with 10-foot intervals indicated in dashed lines, allowing the rolling elevations around Georgetown to emerge with quiet precision. The result is both a technical document and a remarkably evocative portrait of Central Texas in the years before modern suburban expansion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the map is Georgetown, the Williamson County seat, anchored by civic and religious landmarks such as the Williamson County Courthouse and St. Mary’s Church. These named features give the sheet an intimate historical texture, showing not merely terrain but the institutions around which daily life was organized. Schools, stores, sidings, and mills appear as essential points in the rural network: Blocker School, Roldan Siding, Dodd’s Store, and Turner’s Mill all speak to a landscape of dispersed communities tied together by roads, rail, and river crossings. The surrounding names—Stony Point, Cedar Park, Branch April, and other local places—capture a region still largely agricultural, where small settlements and family landmarks mattered as much as formal municipal boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe hydrology of the sheet is especially compelling. The North Fork and South Fork of the San Gabriel River structure the country around Georgetown, joined by smaller waterways including Pecan Branch, Smiths Branch, Peach Creek, and Brushy Creek. These creeks and forks are not decorative details; they explain the form of the land, the placement of roads, and the logic of settlement. The contours reveal a subtly undulating terrain, part of the transition between the Texas Hill Country and the more open agricultural lands to the east. The area now associated with Lake Georgetown appears here before that later transformation, making the river valley particularly valuable to read in its earlier condition. Drainage, slope, and settlement are rendered as one interconnected system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe map also reflects the broader ambitions of the US Geological Survey during a period when accurate topographic mapping was central to land management, engineering, agriculture, and transportation planning. Under the compilation of S. E. Clement, the Georgetown sheet records not only natural relief but the built fabric of the 1920s countryside. Rail features such as Roldan Siding hint at commercial movement and rural connectivity, while mills, churches, schools, and stores reveal a social geography rooted in local service points. The “advance” character of the sheet gives it an additional fascination: it evokes the active process of surveying and publishing, when federal cartography was continually refining its methods to produce more exact and useful representations of American places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a historical document, “Georgetown 4-b” captures Williamson County at a pivotal moment, before the accelerating growth of Austin’s northern corridor and before places like Cedar Park became part of a far larger metropolitan landscape. The map preserves an older pattern of Central Texas life: courthouse town, farm roads, creek bottoms, schoolhouses, church sites, rail sidings, and named branches crossing gently folded ground. Nearly a century of development has altered roads, reservoirs, neighborhoods, and institutional footprints, but this sheet holds the earlier geography in crisp detail. Its restrained USGS styling rewards close study, allowing modern viewers to trace vanished routes, altered waterways, and communities that once existed at a smaller, more local scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCities, towns and places on this map\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeorgetown, Texas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStony Point\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBranch April\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLake Georgetown\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSouth Fork San Gabriel River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNorth Fork San Gabriel River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePecan Branch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlocker School\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoldan Siding\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilliamson County\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmiths Branch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSt. Mary's Church\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeach Creek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCedar Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrushy Creek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTurner’s Mill\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDodd's Store\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilliamson County Courthouse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSan Gabriel Campus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHistorical context \u0026amp; cartographic details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished by the US Geological Survey (USGS)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreated in 1925\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical 1:48,000 topographical map of Georgetown, Texas, and the surrounding region\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSurvey data compiled by S. 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Clement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarked as an “advance” map, possibly indicating preliminary cartographic or survey work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShows contour lines to indicate elevation changes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUses 10-foot contour intervals shown with dashed lines\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDepicts rolling hills and undulating terrain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIllustrates elevation and drainage features characteristic of USGS topographical maps from this period\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eServes as a historical snapshot of Georgetown and its surroundings in the early 20th century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDocuments the area before later changes in urban development, infrastructure, and landscape over nearly a century\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=\"\/es\/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=\"\/es\/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=\"\/es\/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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