Map of Eastern Wisconsin: rivers, lakes, trails, Indian villages, distances, boundaries of tracts ceded by the Menominee, Winnebago and…
A War Department manuscript map of eastern Wisconsin from about 1830, drawn for the lands ceded by the Menominee, Ho-Chunk and the New York Indians in 1821: the dotted routes from Green Bay up the Fox past the Menominee village and the Chutes to Lake Winnebago, around its eastern shore toward Chicago, by Lake Michigan to the Manitowoc, and on to the Butte des Morts, Yellow Thunder’s village and Green Lake, with Indian villages and a table of distances from Green Bay.
Source
| Map | Map of Eastern Wisconsin: Showing Rivers, Lakes, Trails, Indian Villages, Distances, Boundaries of Tracts Ceded by "the Munnomonee, Winnebaygoes, and New York Indians, August 1821" |
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| Author | U.S. War Department, 1830 |
| Archive | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Rights | Public domain. Published 1830 — before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Evidence |
| Accuracy | About 21 km (RMS 1.4 km at 21 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 21 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 (1.8 MB)
- GeoTIFF, tinted trails, EPSG:4326 (8000 × 6902; QGIS, ArcGIS) — free (6.2 MB)
- Print sheet over today’s map (3600 × 2200 PNG) — free (2.3 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 21 places. From the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHi 119749; National Archives, Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, Map O 15), a photostat inverted for the build; added for Project Homeland.
Credits
- From the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHi 119749; National Archives, Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, Map O 15), a photostat inverted for the build; 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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