Wisconsin Indian Trails Map (Wisconsin Archeological Society, 1930)
Charles E. Brown’s statewide map of Wisconsin’s Indian trails for the Wisconsin Archeological Society: the trails in red across every county, from Lake Superior and the St. Croix to the Fox–Wisconsin portage, Lake Winnebago and the Lake Michigan shore, drawn from the Society’s trail surveys.
Source
| Map | Wisconsin Indian Trails Map |
|---|---|
| Author | Charles E. Brown, 1930 |
| Archive | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Rights | Public domain. Published 1930 — before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Evidence |
| Accuracy | About 9 km (RMS 3 km at 58 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 58 places read from the scan and matched to their positions today. See the methodology. |
| Version | 1.0.0, updated 2026-10-09 |
| Covers | Wisconsin |
Downloads
- Google Earth overlay (KMZ) — free (3.5 MB)
- GeoTIFF, tinted trails, EPSG:4326 (7485 × 5063; QGIS, ArcGIS) — free (8.1 MB)
- Print sheet over today’s map (3600 × 2200 PNG) — free (2.9 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 (2026-10-09): First release: placed by hand at 58 places. From the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHi 88487); added for Project Homeland.
Credits
- From the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHi 88487); added for Project Homeland
- Georeferencing: Native Routes
- Scan: Wisconsin Historical Society
Control points
The full list of control points with residuals is in control-points.geojson. Historic names indexed for search: names.geojson.
Something on this map sits in the wrong place? Members can show where with Fix placement on the map — confirmed fixes are tested against the map’s other control points each night and credited here. For anything else, report a problem.
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