{"product_id":"old-map-of-oklahoma-city-oklahoma-by-usgs-1956-norman-moore-lake-draper","title":"Old Map of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by USGS, 1956 – Norman, Moore \u0026 Lake Draper","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOklahoma 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCities, towns and places on this map\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOklahoma City\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMustang\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYukon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDel City\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNorman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlanchard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoore\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStinchcomb Wildlife Refuge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLake Draper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNorth Canadian River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSouth Canadian River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterstate 40\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterstate 44\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eU.S. Route 77\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eU.S. Route 62\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVarious parks within Oklahoma City\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNeighborhoods within Oklahoma City\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAddressing grids, including numbered streets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHistorical context \u0026amp; cartographic details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProduced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), known for authoritative topographical mapping.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical 1:24,000 topographical map of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the surrounding area.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBased on survey data from 1956, with a 1970 imprint.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShows Oklahoma City during a period of notable mid-20th-century growth and urbanization.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReflects changes in infrastructure, population distribution, and urban development since publication.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUses color to represent elevation and land use.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes detailed annotations for roads, rivers, public lands, and urban areas.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDepicts geographical features such as elevation contours, water bodies, and developed areas in a clear, delineated style.\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). 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Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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? 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