Map showing Indian trails centering at Black Hawk's Village (John H. Hauberg, 1921)
John H. Hauberg’s map of the Sauk and Meskwaki trails radiating from Saukenuk, Black Hawk’s village at the mouth of the Rock River, in red over the township grid: up the Mississippi and the Rock, south to Oquawka, and east across Henry and Bureau counties toward the Illinois.
Source
| Map | Indian trails centering at Black Hawk's Village |
|---|---|
| Author | John H. Hauberg, 1921 |
| Archive | Internet Archive |
| Rights | Public domain. Published 1921 — before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Evidence |
| Accuracy | About 6 km (RMS 1.2 km at 18 control points). Placed by hand in a map-queue session and approved by a person. If something sits in the wrong place, members can fix it with Fix placement on the map. |
| Method | Placed by hand: a second-order polynomial fit to 18 places read from the scan and matched to their positions today. See the methodology. |
| Version | 1.0.0, updated 2026-09-30 |
| Covers | Illinois, Iowa |
Downloads
- Google Earth overlay (KMZ) — free (1.7 MB)
- GeoTIFF, tinted trails, EPSG:4326 (6132 × 3316; QGIS, ArcGIS) — free (2.2 MB)
- Print sheet over today’s map (3600 × 2200 PNG) — free (2.3 MB)
Project Homeland
This map’s trails are traced into Project Homeland, one map of the trail network melded from every traced source, where they are compared with the other maps’ lines. Members can trace more of them: Trace a trail on the map.
Changelog
- 1.0.0 (2026-09-30): First release: placed by hand at 18 places. From the Native Routes sources register; the map across leaves 48–49 of Hauberg’s Indian Trails Centering at Black Hawk’s Village (1921), Internet Archive, joined at the gutter.
Credits
- From the Native Routes sources register; the map across leaves 48–49 of Hauberg’s Indian Trails Centering at Black Hawk’s Village (1921), Internet Archive, joined at the gutter
- Georeferencing: Native Routes
- Scan: Internet Archive
Control points
The full list of control points with residuals is in control-points.geojson. Historic names indexed for search: names.geojson.
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