The Buffalo Trace through Pike and Dubois counties, plate 4 of Early Indiana Trails and Surveys (George R. Wilson, 1919)
George R. Wilson’s plate of the Buffalo Trace (the Vincennes Trace) across Pike and Dubois counties: the bison and Indian road from the Falls of the Ohio to Vincennes, the Delaware Indian camp of 1778 on the White River, the Yellow Banks trail, and the rangers’ camps and cabins along it.
Source
| Map | Early Indiana trails and surveys |
|---|---|
| Author | George R. Wilson, 1919 |
| Archive | Internet Archive |
| Rights | Public domain. Published 1919 — before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Evidence |
| Accuracy | About 6 km (RMS 0.9 km at 6 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 first-order polynomial fit to 6 places read from the scan and matched to their positions today. See the methodology. |
| Version | 1.0.0, updated 2026-09-30 |
| Covers | Indiana |
Downloads
- Google Earth overlay (KMZ) — free (1 MB)
- GeoTIFF, tinted trails, EPSG:4326 (5073 × 2314; QGIS, ArcGIS) — free (0.8 MB)
- Print sheet over today’s map (3600 × 2200 PNG) — free (2.3 MB)
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Changelog
- 1.0.0 (2026-09-30): First release: placed by hand at 6 places. From the Native Routes sources register; plate 4 of Wilson’s Early Indiana Trails and Surveys (1919), Internet Archive.
Credits
- From the Native Routes sources register; plate 4 of Wilson’s Early Indiana Trails and Surveys (1919), Internet Archive
- 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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