Map of the States of Kansas and Texas and Indian Territory, with parts of the Territories of Colorado and New Mexico (Engineer Bureau, War…
The War Department Engineer Bureau’s 1867 map of Kansas, Texas and Indian Territory, compiled from the Army’s surveys: in the Trans-Pecos it marks the Comanche Trail and the Grand Comanche War Trail south from Comanche Spring toward the Big Bend and Mexico, the Large Indian Trail across the Rio Grande below the Pecos, the Indian trail from the Pecos crossing to the White Sand Hills waterholes, and Indian trails by the Hueco and Cornudas mountains to the salt lakes. Only the West Texas part of its southern sheet is shown.
Source
| Map | Map of the states of Kansas and Texas and Indian Territory, with Parts of the Territories of Colorado and New Mexico (1867) |
|---|---|
| Author | Engineer Bureau, War Department, 1867 |
| Archive | Wikimedia Commons |
| Rights | Public domain. Published 1867 — before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Evidence |
| Accuracy | About 23 km (RMS 4.5 km at 28 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 smoothing thin-plate spline through 28 places read from the scan and matched to their positions today. See the methodology. |
| Version | 1.0.0, updated 2026-10-09 |
| Covers | Texas |
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Downloads
- Google Earth overlay (KMZ) — free (2.2 MB)
- GeoTIFF, tinted trails, EPSG:4326 (8000 × 5117; QGIS, ArcGIS) — free (8 MB)
- Print sheet over today’s map (3600 × 2200 PNG) — free (1.8 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
- 1.0.0 (2026-10-09): First release: placed by hand at 28 places. From the National Archives (NAID 93193076) via Wikimedia Commons; added for Project Homeland.
Credits
- From the National Archives (NAID 93193076) via Wikimedia Commons; added for Project Homeland
- 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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