{"product_id":"old-map-of-kohler-wisconsin-by-usgs-1959-sheboygan-sheboygan-falls-lake-michigan","title":"Old Map of Kohler, Wisconsin by USGS, 1959 – Sheboygan, Sheboygan Falls \u0026 Lake Michigan","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1964 from 1959 survey work, the US Geological Survey’s “Newburg” presents a finely observed topographical portrait of eastern Wisconsin at a moment when village, industry, farmland, woodland, and lakeshore still met in intimate proximity. Although titled for Newburg, the map’s field of interest prominently includes Kohler, Sheboygan, Sheboygan Falls, Black River, Riverside Park, and the approaches to Lake Michigan. At 1:24,000 scale, it belongs to the USGS quadrangle tradition: exacting, practical, and quietly elegant. Roads, rail lines, streams, settlement patterns, and contour intervals are organized into a clear visual hierarchy, offering both geographic precision and a vivid record of the region’s mid-twentieth-century landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKohler is one of the map’s most compelling presences, a planned industrial village whose name became synonymous with American plumbing design and manufacturing. Founded around the Kohler Company, the village developed with an unusual degree of civic intention, blending factory, housing, green space, and resort culture into a distinctive Wisconsin community. On this map, Kohler’s position near Sheboygan and Sheboygan Falls reveals its relationship to older settlement routes, water power traditions, and modern transportation corridors. The cartography captures a place shaped not only by industry, but by landscape design and recreation, with parks, wooded tracts, and nearby waterways giving the village a character quite unlike an ordinary factory town.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sheboygan area shown here is equally rich in historical texture. Sheboygan, set beside Lake Michigan, long served as a maritime and commercial center, while Sheboygan Falls grew inland along river corridors that supported mills, trade, and agriculture. The map’s depiction of roads, state routes, rail alignments, and local streets records a regional network before later suburban expansion fully transformed the county’s spatial character. Riverside Park and the Black River add further depth, anchoring the map in a landscape of recreation, drainage, and ecological transition. The nearby lakeshore, though only one element in the composition, gives the entire sheet a sense of orientation toward the great inland sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a USGS topographic map, “Newburg” is distinguished by its disciplined cartographic language. Brown contour lines describe the subtle rises and falls of Wisconsin’s glaciated terrain, while blue waterways, green wooded areas, and black cultural features create an efficient yet beautiful code. Small lakes, ponds, unnamed streams, and branching drainage patterns appear with the quiet authority characteristic of federal survey mapping. The terrain is not mountainous, but the contours reveal the shaping force of ice, water, and settlement over time. Fields, forest patches, parkland, transport corridors, and developed places are all held in balance, making the map both scientifically useful and visually absorbing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eViewed today, this 1959 survey offers a valuable historical snapshot of land use in eastern Wisconsin before the accelerating changes of the late twentieth century. It preserves the relationship between compact communities, working landscapes, wooded parcels, waterways, and the infrastructure that connected them. For collectors drawn to industrial heritage, Midwestern geography, or the refined clarity of USGS design, the map is especially evocative: Kohler’s planned village, Sheboygan’s lakeside identity, Sheboygan Falls’ inland history, and the natural corridors around Black River are all present in one carefully measured composition. It is a document of place, but also of an era when modern America was being mapped with extraordinary precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCities, towns and places on this map\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKohler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSheboygan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSheboygan Falls\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRiverside Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLake Michigan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVarious unnamed streams and rivers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNumerous small lakes and ponds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForested areas and parks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMajor roads, including highways and state routes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRail lines\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContour elevations shown throughout the map\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHistorical context \u0026amp; cartographic details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMap title: \u003cem\u003eNewburg\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProduced by the US Geological Survey as a historical 1:24,000 topographical map.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDated 1959, with a 1964 imprint.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished by the US Geological Survey, known for detailed geographic and topographic mapping.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProminently features Kohler, Wisconsin, a village associated with the plumbing industry and resort history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUses a clear, color-coded system to show land use and topographical features.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes contour lines to indicate changes in elevation, consistent with USGS standards.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShows varied terrain, water bodies, and green shaded areas representing forests and natural vegetation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvides insight into Wisconsin’s late-1950s geography, development, 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=\"\/fr\/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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