Map of the Territory of New Mexico, compiled by Bvt. 2nd Lt. Jno. G. Parke, U.S.T.E., assisted by Mr. Richard H. Kern (Santa Fé, 1851)
The first survey map of the new Territory of New Mexico: the pueblos, the Navajo, Apache, Ute and Comanche country, the trails between the springs and the Rio Grande towns, and the routes of the 1846–51 expeditions.
Source
| Map | Map of the territory of New-Mexico / compiled by But 2nd Lt ing. G. Parke... ; drawn by R. H. Kern. Santa Fé. N. M. 1851... |
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| Author | John G. Parke and Richard H. Kern, 1851 |
| Archive | Wikimedia Commons |
| Rights | Public domain. Published 1851 — before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Evidence |
| Accuracy | About 45 km (RMS 9.3 km at 15 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 on the sheet’s own graticule: its border ticks were fitted with a polyconic projection together with eight towns and pueblos, the other coordinate of each tick taken from that fit, and the 15 points warped with a thin-plate spline. See the methodology. |
| Version | 1.0.1, updated 2026-10-06 |
| Covers | New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Texas |
Downloads
- Google Earth overlay (KMZ) — free (5.3 MB)
- GeoTIFF, tinted trails, EPSG:4326 (8000 × 4776; QGIS, ArcGIS) — free (22.8 MB)
- Print sheet over today’s map (3600 × 2200 PNG) — free (3.3 MB)
Project Homeland
This map is open for tracing into Project Homeland, one map of the trail network melded from every traced source. Members trace a trail by clicking along it: Trace a trail on the map.
Changelog
- 1.0.1 (2026-10-06): Fix: place names re-placed where the map draws them (they had been set by an approximation of the warp: median 7.0 km, up to 13 km off).
- 1.0.0 (2026-09-30): First release: placed by hand at 15 places. From the Native Routes sources register; Wikimedia Commons (from the Bibliothèque nationale de France copy).
Credits
- From the Native Routes sources register; Wikimedia Commons (from the Bibliothèque nationale de France copy)
- Georeferencing: Native Routes
- Scan: Wikimedia Commons
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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