Map of the Indian and Oklahoma Territories (Rand McNally for the General Land Office records, 1894)
The 1894 Rand McNally map of the Indian and Oklahoma Territories, compiled from the official records of the General Land Office: the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole and Osage Nations with their districts and capitals, the agencies and military reservations of the western tribes, treaty citations, trails, wagon roads and mail routes on the eve of allotment.
Source
| Map | Map of the Indian and Oklahoma Territories |
|---|---|
| Author | Rand McNally & Co., from General Land Office records, 1894 |
| Archive | Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division · 12 miles to 1 inch (about 1:760,000) |
| Rights | Public domain. Published 1894 — public domain. The Library of Congress digitized copy is marked free to use and reuse. Evidence |
| Accuracy | About 10 km (RMS 6.8 km at 49 control points). Town symbols on the sheet are small and the fit residual is dominated by symbol-reading error. District and nation boundaries follow the GLO surveys and land well; trails and mail routes are schematic. |
| Method | Second-order polynomial fit to 49 towns read from the sheet against their modern locations; the sheet is a GLO-derived polyconic at 1:760k. See the methodology. |
| Version | 1.0.0, updated 2026-09-17 |
| Covers | Oklahoma |
Changelog
- 1.0.0 (2026-09-17): First release: 49 control points, tinted and scan layers, z5–z11.
Control points
The full list of control points with residuals is in control-points.geojson. Historic names indexed for search: names.geojson.