{"product_id":"map-of-tupelo-mississippi-by-usgs-1992-natchez-trace-parkway-us-route-45","title":"Map of Tupelo, Mississippi by USGS, 1992 – Natchez Trace Parkway \u0026 US Route 45","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1995 from 1992 mapping, the USGS quadrangle titled “Tupelo” captures a pivotal regional center of northeastern Mississippi at the close of the twentieth century. At 1:24,000 scale, it presents the city and its surrounding countryside with the precision and restraint characteristic of United States Geological Survey topographic work. Tupelo appears not merely as a named place, but as a lived landscape: streets, creeks, parks, ponds, wooded tracts, transport corridors, and shaded built-up areas form a detailed portrait of urban and suburban Mississippi in the early 1990s. For collectors, the map offers a compelling historical snapshot of a city widely known as the birthplace of Elvis Presley, shown here through the measured language of contours, symbols, and civic geography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe United States Geological Survey, founded in 1879, became one of the great cartographic institutions of the modern world, producing maps that joined scientific rigor with understated visual elegance. This Tupelo sheet exemplifies the USGS mission: to document the American landscape with dependable, standardized information useful to engineers, planners, hikers, historians, and citizens alike. Its bright palette distinguishes water, vegetation, roads, and developed areas, while fine contour lines reveal the subtle rise and fall of the local terrain. Rather than dramatic mountains or vast wilderness, the map’s interest lies in nuance—the small valleys, creek corridors, low hills, and human networks that define the physical character of Lee County and its surroundings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTupelo’s urban fabric is carefully articulated across the sheet, with residential and commercial districts indicated by shaded patterns and an intricate web of smaller roads. Major routes, including U.S. Route 45 and State Route 6, anchor the composition, emphasizing Tupelo’s role as a transportation and commercial hub in northern Mississippi. The Natchez Trace Parkway adds a deeper historical resonance, tracing a modern scenic route along one of the most storied travel corridors in the American South. Its presence on the map links twentieth-century infrastructure to centuries of movement, trade, and settlement. Nearby places such as Belmont and local landmarks give the sheet a broader regional texture beyond the city itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWatercourses lend the map much of its topographic grace. Flint Creek, Moore’s Creek, and Pigeon Roost Creek wind through the landscape, their courses marked in blue and set among the gentle contours of the Mississippi uplands. Scattered lakes and ponds punctuate the sheet, while wooded areas and parks soften the geometry of roads and development. Veterans Memorial Park stands out as one of the named civic spaces, part of a broader pattern of recreational and green land embedded within the city’s expanding footprint. These natural and semi-natural features reveal how Tupelo’s growth was shaped by drainage, terrain, and available land, offering a quiet but revealing study in environmental context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a historical document, this map is especially valuable for comparison with the Tupelo of today. The early 1990s were a period when many regional American cities were experiencing commercial expansion, highway-oriented development, and suburban growth, and this sheet records that moment with remarkable clarity. Roads, trails, built-up zones, open lands, waterways, and public spaces together form a precise civic inventory before later waves of change. For admirers of Southern history, urban geography, or Elvis’s hometown, the map offers more than orientation: it is a disciplined portrait of place. Its beauty lies in the meeting of scientific cartography and local memory, where every contour and road line preserves a fragment of Tupelo’s evolving landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCities, towns and places on this map\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTupelo, Mississippi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVeterans Memorial Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBelmont, Mississippi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlint Creek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoore's Creek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatchez Trace Parkway\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUS Route 45\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eState Route 6\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePigeon Roost Creek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eResidential and commercial areas indicated by shading\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmaller roads and trails\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLakes and ponds depicted in blue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWooded areas and parks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmall local landmarks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHistorical context \u0026amp; cartographic details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProduced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical 1:24,000 topographical map of Tupelo and the surrounding area\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDated 1992 with a 1995 imprint\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe USGS is a U.S. government scientific agency known for reliable information on natural resources, natural hazards, and the American landscape\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTupelo is historically significant as the birthplace of Elvis Presley and as a key regional center in Mississippi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUses a bright color palette with contour lines and shading to represent elevation and landforms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShows hills, valleys, and water bodies through contour lines and color variations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReflects Tupelo’s geographic and infrastructural landscape in the early 1990s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUseful for comparing past and present urban expansion, transportation, and land use\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLooking for a particular place?\u003c\/strong\u003e Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, \u003ca target=\"”_blank”\" href=\"\/de\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eask our workshop to check before you order\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDetailed maps are especially rewarding at larger sizes, where names, boundaries and decorative features have more room to be appreciated. Use the close-up preview and size guide to choose the right scale for your wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). 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