Rare Old Map of Kerrville, Texas by USGS, 1964: Guadalupe River & Texas Hill Country
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“Kerrville Quadrangle” presents the Texas Hill Country around Kerrville as surveyed in 1964 and published with a 1967 imprint by the United...
Seguir leyendo“Kerrville Quadrangle” presents the Texas Hill Country around Kerrville as surveyed in 1964 and published with a 1967 imprint by the United States Geological Survey. At the intimate 1:24,000 quadrangle scale, the map captures a mid-century portrait of a city poised between frontier landscape and modern growth. Kerrville appears in red, its street grid, roads, and civic infrastructure standing out against the subtler greens and whites of surrounding vegetation, pasture, and open ground. The Guadalupe River, the defining natural feature of the area, threads through the map as both a geographic anchor and a reminder of why settlement, travel, and recreation converged here.
The USGS quadrangle tradition is one of the great achievements of American scientific cartography, combining field survey, aerial interpretation, standardized symbols, and rigorous elevation measurement into maps of remarkable clarity. This sheet reflects that discipline beautifully: roads and trails are crisply differentiated, waterways are carefully traced, and the landscape is modeled through closely spaced contour lines. Rather than presenting Texas as an abstract expanse, the map reveals the practical texture of place—valleys, ridgelines, drainage patterns, wooded slopes, and developed corridors. It is cartography made for engineers, planners, geologists, hikers, land managers, and citizens who needed to understand the ground beneath their feet.
Kerrville’s setting is rendered with particular eloquence through the map’s topographic language. The surrounding hills rise and fall around the Guadalupe River valley, their contours describing the broken limestone country that gives this part of Texas its distinctive character. The city occupies a comparatively favorable position along the river corridor, while the neighboring uplands and smaller valleys show the constraints and opportunities that shaped local roads, neighborhoods, and open spaces. Minor ponds and water bodies, intermittent drainages, and green areas punctuate the terrain, suggesting a landscape where water, shade, and elevation have always influenced patterns of habitation and movement.
As a historical document, the map is especially compelling for what it preserves of Kerrville in the mid-1960s. Its red urban imprint records the extent of development before later decades of expansion altered the city’s footprint and surrounding land use. Roads and trails indicate the transportation network of the period, while the distribution of open land, vegetation, recreational spaces, and lightly developed areas offers a valuable comparison with the contemporary Hill Country. For collectors, historians, and anyone connected to Kerrville, the sheet becomes more than a technical survey: it is a snapshot of a community at a precise moment in its evolution.
The design is characteristically elegant in the USGS manner, balancing scientific precision with visual accessibility. Green areas indicate vegetation and parkland, white fields suggest more open or less wooded terrain, blue waterways and ponds articulate the hydrology, and red symbols draw attention to the human-built environment. This restrained color system allows the eye to move easily between city, river, road, and hill, making the map both information-rich and quietly beautiful. In “Kerrville Quadrangle,” the measured art of topography meets the cultural geography of central Texas, preserving the relationship between town and landscape in a form both authoritative and evocative.
Cities, towns and places on this map
- Kerrville
- Guadalupe River
- Various roads and trails shown in red
- Surrounding valleys and hills
- Recreational parks and green spaces
- Nearby bodies of water, including minor lakes or ponds
Historical context & cartographic details
- Produced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS)
- Historical 1:24,000 topographical map of Kerrville, Texas and the surrounding area
- Dated 1964 with a 1967 imprint
- Shows urban infrastructure and natural features in and around Kerrville
- Includes a clear legend and scale
- Uses color contrasts, with green for vegetation, white for areas with less cover, and red for urban areas
- Features contour lines to show elevation changes and the hilly terrain surrounding Kerrville
- Reflects mid-20th-century land use and geographic characteristics
- Useful for comparing later urban development in Kerrville and changes in land cover
Looking for a particular place? Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, ask our workshop to check before you order.
Detailed 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.
This map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please get in touch.
The model in the listing images is holding the 16x20in (40x50cm) version of this map.
Where personalisation is available, you can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. See personalised map examples.
Every piece is printed to museum-grade archival standards using fade-resistant pigment inks on acid-free matte paper. Choose an unframed map print, framed map or canvas using the finish options above. Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.
With its rich detail and strong sense of place, this map makes a considered gift for a new home, anniversary, retirement or anyone with a personal connection to the area shown. Still deciding? Explore our collection of rare old and vintage maps to discover another place, period or style.
This map is also available as a float framed canvas, sometimes known as a shadow gap framed canvas or canvas floater. The map is printed on artist's cotton canvas and then stretched over a handmade box frame. We then "float" the canvas inside a wooden frame, which is available in a range of colours (black, dark brown, oak, antique gold and white). This is a wonderful way to present a map without glazing in front. See some examples of float framed canvas maps and explore the differences between my different finishes.
For something truly unique, this map is also available in "Unique 3D", our trademarked process that dramatically transforms the map so that it has a wonderful sense of depth. We combine the original map with detailed topography and elevation data, so that mountains and the terrain really "pop". For more info and examples of 3D maps, check my Unique 3D page.
“Kerrville Quadrangle” presents the Texas Hill Country around Kerrville as surveyed in 1964 and published with a 1967 imprint by the United States Geological Survey. At the intimate 1:24,000 quadrangle scale, the map captures a mid-century portrait of a city poised between frontier landscape and modern growth. Kerrville appears in red, its street grid, roads, and civic infrastructure standing out against the subtler greens and whites of surrounding vegetation, pasture, and open ground. The Guadalupe River, the defining natural feature of the area, threads through the map as both a geographic anchor and a reminder of why settlement, travel, and recreation converged here.
The USGS quadrangle tradition is one of the great achievements of American scientific cartography, combining field survey, aerial interpretation, standardized symbols, and rigorous elevation measurement into maps of remarkable clarity. This sheet reflects that discipline beautifully: roads and trails are crisply differentiated, waterways are carefully traced, and the landscape is modeled through closely spaced contour lines. Rather than presenting Texas as an abstract expanse, the map reveals the practical texture of place—valleys, ridgelines, drainage patterns, wooded slopes, and developed corridors. It is cartography made for engineers, planners, geologists, hikers, land managers, and citizens who needed to understand the ground beneath their feet.
Kerrville’s setting is rendered with particular eloquence through the map’s topographic language. The surrounding hills rise and fall around the Guadalupe River valley, their contours describing the broken limestone country that gives this part of Texas its distinctive character. The city occupies a comparatively favorable position along the river corridor, while the neighboring uplands and smaller valleys show the constraints and opportunities that shaped local roads, neighborhoods, and open spaces. Minor ponds and water bodies, intermittent drainages, and green areas punctuate the terrain, suggesting a landscape where water, shade, and elevation have always influenced patterns of habitation and movement.
As a historical document, the map is especially compelling for what it preserves of Kerrville in the mid-1960s. Its red urban imprint records the extent of development before later decades of expansion altered the city’s footprint and surrounding land use. Roads and trails indicate the transportation network of the period, while the distribution of open land, vegetation, recreational spaces, and lightly developed areas offers a valuable comparison with the contemporary Hill Country. For collectors, historians, and anyone connected to Kerrville, the sheet becomes more than a technical survey: it is a snapshot of a community at a precise moment in its evolution.
The design is characteristically elegant in the USGS manner, balancing scientific precision with visual accessibility. Green areas indicate vegetation and parkland, white fields suggest more open or less wooded terrain, blue waterways and ponds articulate the hydrology, and red symbols draw attention to the human-built environment. This restrained color system allows the eye to move easily between city, river, road, and hill, making the map both information-rich and quietly beautiful. In “Kerrville Quadrangle,” the measured art of topography meets the cultural geography of central Texas, preserving the relationship between town and landscape in a form both authoritative and evocative.
Cities, towns and places on this map
- Kerrville
- Guadalupe River
- Various roads and trails shown in red
- Surrounding valleys and hills
- Recreational parks and green spaces
- Nearby bodies of water, including minor lakes or ponds
Historical context & cartographic details
- Produced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS)
- Historical 1:24,000 topographical map of Kerrville, Texas and the surrounding area
- Dated 1964 with a 1967 imprint
- Shows urban infrastructure and natural features in and around Kerrville
- Includes a clear legend and scale
- Uses color contrasts, with green for vegetation, white for areas with less cover, and red for urban areas
- Features contour lines to show elevation changes and the hilly terrain surrounding Kerrville
- Reflects mid-20th-century land use and geographic characteristics
- Useful for comparing later urban development in Kerrville and changes in land cover
Looking for a particular place? Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, ask our workshop to check before you order.
Detailed 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.
This map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please get in touch.
The model in the listing images is holding the 16x20in (40x50cm) version of this map.
Where personalisation is available, you can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. See personalised map examples.
Every piece is printed to museum-grade archival standards using fade-resistant pigment inks on acid-free matte paper. Choose an unframed map print, framed map or canvas using the finish options above. Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.
With its rich detail and strong sense of place, this map makes a considered gift for a new home, anniversary, retirement or anyone with a personal connection to the area shown. Still deciding? Explore our collection of rare old and vintage maps to discover another place, period or style.
This map is also available as a float framed canvas, sometimes known as a shadow gap framed canvas or canvas floater. The map is printed on artist's cotton canvas and then stretched over a handmade box frame. We then "float" the canvas inside a wooden frame, which is available in a range of colours (black, dark brown, oak, antique gold and white). This is a wonderful way to present a map without glazing in front. See some examples of float framed canvas maps and explore the differences between my different finishes.
For something truly unique, this map is also available in "Unique 3D", our trademarked process that dramatically transforms the map so that it has a wonderful sense of depth. We combine the original map with detailed topography and elevation data, so that mountains and the terrain really "pop". For more info and examples of 3D maps, check my Unique 3D page.
Muchos de nuestros mapas y reproducciones de arte se eligen como regalos considerados para hogares, oficinas, despachos y lugares significativos.
Elija una opción enmarcada para el regalo más sencillo, listo para colgar, o elija una lámina sin enmarcar si el destinatario prefiere seleccionar su propio marco.
Producimos los pedidos localmente en 23 países de todo el mundo, por lo que a menudo los regalos pueden realizarse cerca del destinatario. Esto ayuda a que lleguen más rápido, viajen de forma más segura y eviten sorpresas por aduanas o aranceles de importación.
- Podemos entregar directamente al destinatario
- Las piezas enmarcadas llegan listas para colgar
- Las láminas sin enmarcar se embalan cuidadosamente en un resistente tubo protector
- Casi todos los pedidos se producen localmente, para regalar de forma más rápida y segura
- Las devoluciones de 90 días dan al destinatario tiempo para decidir
Si no está seguro de qué elegir, por favor contáctenos. Podemos ayudarle a escoger el mapa, tamaño, acabado u opción de entrega adecuados.
Para la mayoría de los pedidos, el tiempo de entrega es de aproximadamente 3 días laborables. Los productos personalizados y a medida tardan más, ya que tengo que hacer la personalización y enviártelo para su aprobación, lo cual suele tardar 1 o 2 días.
Tenga en cuenta que los pedidos enmarcados muy grandes suelen tardar más en fabricarse y entregarse.
Si necesitas que tu pedido llegue para una fecha determinada, por favor contáctame antes de hacer el pedido para que podamos encontrar la mejor manera de asegurarnos de que recibas tu pedido a tiempo.
Imprimo y enmarco mapas y obras de arte en 23 países alrededor del mundo. Esto significa que tu pedido se fabricará localmente, lo que reduce el tiempo de entrega y asegura que no se dañe durante el envío. Nunca pagarás aranceles de aduana o impuestos de importación, y pondremos menos CO2 en el aire.
Todos mis mapas y impresiones artísticas están bien empaquetados y enviados en un tubo resistente si no están enmarcados, o rodeados de espuma si están enmarcados.
Intento enviar todos los pedidos dentro de 1 o 2 días después de recibir tu pedido, aunque algunos productos (como mascarillas, tazas y bolsas de tela) pueden tardar más en fabricarse.
Si seleccionas Entrega Exprés al finalizar la compra, priorizaremos tu pedido y lo enviaremos por mensajería de 1 día (Fedex, DHL, UPS, Parcelforce).
La entrega al día siguiente también está disponible en algunos países (EE. UU., Reino Unido, Singapur, EAU), pero por favor intenta hacer tu pedido temprano en el día para que podamos enviarlo a tiempo.
Mi marco estándar es un marco de madera de fresno negro estilo galería. Es simple y tiene un aspecto bastante moderno. Mi marco estándar tiene alrededor de 20 mm (0.8 in) de ancho.
Utilizo acrílico super claro (perspex/acrylite) para el vidrio del marco. Es más ligero y seguro que el vidrio, y se ve mejor, ya que la reflectividad es menor.
Seis colores de marco estándar están disponibles de forma gratuita (negro, marrón oscuro, gris oscuro, roble, blanco y oro antiguo).El enmarcado y montaje/matizado personalizado está disponible si buscas algo diferente.
La mayoría de los mapas, arte e ilustraciones también están disponibles como un lienzo enmarcado. Utilizamos lienzo de algodón mate (no brillante), lo estiramos sobre un marco de madera de caja de origen sostenible, y luego 'flotamos' la pieza dentro de un marco de madera. El resultado final es bastante hermoso, y no hay cristal que se interponga.
Todos los marcos se proporcionan "listos para colgar", con una cuerda o soportes en la parte posterior. Los marcos muy grandes tendrán placas de colgar de alta resistencia y/o un listón de montaje. Si tienes alguna pregunta, por favor ponte en contacto.
Mira algunos ejemplos de mis mapas enmarcados y mapas en lienzo enmarcados.
Alternativamente, también puedo proporcionar mapas antiguos y obras de arte en lienzo, tablero de espuma, papel de algodón y otros materiales.
Si deseas enmarcar tu mapa o obra de arte tú mismo, por favor lee mi guía de tamaños primero.
We work with interior designers, hospitality businesses, property professionals, offices and corporate buyers on individual pieces and larger coordinated projects.
This map can be adapted for a particular wall, room or project, and our workshop can help coordinate the dimensions, material and framing before production.
- Exact, oversized and made-to-measure dimensions
- Custom framing, mounting and alternative materials
- Coordinated pieces for several rooms or locations
- Map personalisation, to mark important locations or add extra details
- Map and framing guidance from our workshop
- Local production for projects around the world
Mis mapas son reproducciones de mapas originales de altísima calidad.
Obtengo mapas originales y raros de bibliotecas, casas de subastas y colecciones privadas de todo el mundo, los restauro en mi taller de Londres y luego uso tintas e impresoras giclée especializadas para crear hermosos mapas que lucen incluso mejor que el original.
Mis mapas están impresos en papel de archivo mate (no brillante) sin ácido que se siente de muy alta calidad y casi como una tarjeta. En términos técnicos, el peso/grosor del papel es de 10 mil/200 g/m². Es perfecto para enmarcar.
Imprimo con tintas pigmentadas Epson ultrachrome giclée UV resistentes a la decoloración, algunas de las mejores tintas que puedes encontrar.
yo también puedo hacer mapas sobre lienzo, trapo de algodón y otros materiales exóticos.
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Personalización de mapas
Si está buscando el regalo perfecto de aniversario o inauguración de la casa, puedo personalizar su mapa para hacerlo verdaderamente único. Por ejemplo, puedo agregar un mensaje corto, resaltar una ubicación importante o agregar el escudo de armas de su familia.
Las opciones son casi infinitas. Por favor mira mi página de personalización de mapas para ver algunos maravillosos ejemplos de lo que es posible.
Para pedir un mapa personalizado, seleccione "personalizar su mapa" antes de agregarlo a su carrito.
Ponerse en contacto si buscas personalizaciones y personalizaciones más complejas.
Envejecimiento del mapa
A lo largo de los años, los clientes me han preguntado cientos de veces si podían comprar un mapa que se viera uniforme. más viejo.
Bueno, ahora puedes hacerlo seleccionando Envejecido antes de agregar un mapa a tu carrito.
Todas las fotografías de productos que ve en esta página muestran el mapa en su forma original. Así es como se ve el mapa hoy.
Si selecciona Envejecido, envejeceré su mapa a mano, usando un proceso especial y único desarrollado a través de años de estudiar mapas antiguos, hablar con investigadores para comprender la química del envejecimiento del papel y, por supuesto... ¡mucha práctica!
Si no estás seguro, quédate con el color original del mapa. Si quieres algo un poco más oscuro y más viejo buscando, opte por Envejecido.
Llevamos restaurando y produciendo mapas y láminas artísticas desde 1984, y respondemos por cada pieza.
Todos los pedidos están cubiertos por nuestra garantía de 10 años y nuestra garantía de entrega sin daños. Si su pieza llega dañada, la sustituiremos o la volveremos a producir sin cargo alguno. Si cualquier otro aspecto no es correcto, contacte con nuestro equipo de taller y lo resolveremos con prontitud.
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