Rare Old Map of Winona Lake, Indiana by USGS, 1957: Warsaw & Lake Tippecanoe
Restored in our London workshop from the original 1959 map and printed to museum-grade archival standards. Full description
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Restored from the original 1959 map and printed to museum-grade archival standards. Full description
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Published with a 1959 imprint from 1957 US Geological Survey work, “Warsaw” presents northern Indiana in the disciplined, elegant language of mid-century...
Continue readingPublished with a 1959 imprint from 1957 US Geological Survey work, “Warsaw” presents northern Indiana in the disciplined, elegant language of mid-century American topography. At 1:24,000 scale, the map centers on Warsaw and Winona Lake, setting the urban grid, roads, rail lines, lakeshores, woodland, and contours into a precise visual record of Kosciusko County. The USGS style is unmistakable: measured contour intervals trace subtle relief, blue waterways define the region’s lake country, green shading marks parks and wooded ground, and cultural features appear with crisp authority. More than a navigational document, the map captures a landscape at a moment when small-city growth, resort life, agriculture, and transportation networks coexisted in a finely balanced Midwestern geography.
Winona Lake is the map’s great visual and historical anchor, its distinctive outline immediately drawing the eye southeast of Warsaw. Developed in the late nineteenth century as a summer retreat and assembly ground, the lake became associated with recreation, religious gatherings, education, and seasonal tourism. By the time this map was compiled, Winona Lake had already acquired a layered identity: part residential community, part resort landscape, part cultural landmark. The shoreline, roads, nearby woodland, and surrounding settlement patterns shown here evoke the transition from rural lakeside escape to more permanent mid-century community. In cartographic form, the lake appears both natural and social—an irregular body of water around which leisure, development, and local memory had gathered for generations.
Warsaw itself is rendered with the clarity characteristic of USGS mapping, its street pattern and built-up areas set amid lakes, lowlands, rail corridors, and state highways. Indiana State Road 15 and Indiana State Road 25 help frame the city’s connections to the wider region, while railroads and trails speak to older patterns of movement and commerce. Center Lake and Pike Lake lie close to town, emphasizing Warsaw’s identity as a city shaped by water as much as by roads. The map reveals a mid-century community still closely tied to its surrounding countryside, with urban development giving way quickly to open land, wooded tracts, drainage ways, and smaller lakes that punctuate the glacial terrain.
The wider sheet is rich with the hydrological character of northern Indiana. Lake Tippecanoe, Crooked Lake, Yellow Creek, Jones Lake, Silver Lake, Boggs Lake, and numerous unnamed ponds and wetlands form a network of water features that give the landscape its distinctive rhythm. These lakes are not decorative details; they are geological evidence, reminders of the glacial processes that shaped Kosciusko County’s rolling ground and basin-filled terrain. Contour lines gently articulate changes in elevation, allowing the viewer to read ridges, slopes, and low-lying corridors with quiet precision. Green-shaded wooded areas and parks introduce texture and contrast, suggesting habitats, recreation grounds, and patches of older landscape within an otherwise cultivated and settled region.
As a historical document, this map offers a refined snapshot of Indiana in the late 1950s, a period when automobile routes, expanding towns, schools, recreation areas, and rural land uses were being reorganized around modern infrastructure. The inclusion of places such as the Triton School District, local roads, rail lines, and lakeside communities gives the sheet a lived-in quality, connecting official survey work with everyday geography. The US Geological Survey’s standardized topographic method lends the scene scientific restraint, yet the result is quietly evocative: a portrait of Warsaw and Winona Lake before later waves of suburban expansion and recreational development further transformed the area. It is a map of place, movement, memory, and measured change.
Cities, towns and places on this map
- Winona Lake
- Warsaw
- Lake Tippecanoe
- Center Lake
- Pike Lake
- Crooked Lake
- Yellow Creek
- Jones Lake
- Silver Lake
- Boggs Lake
- Triton School District
- Indiana State Road 15
- Indiana State Road 25
- Several parks and wooded areas indicated by green shading
- Various unnamed smaller lakes and ponds
- Railroads and trails as indicated by the map features
Historical context & cartographic details
- Historical 1:24,000 topographical map dated 1957 with a 1959 imprint
- Published by the US Geological Survey (USGS), known for standardized scientific and geological mapping
- Shows survey data collected by the US Geological Survey
- Winona Lake has historical significance as a recreational area developed in the late 19th century as a summer retreat
- Uses traditional topographical cartographic design, with contour lines to depict elevation
- Features color coding to indicate land uses such as parks and urban areas
- Depicts varied elevations, lakes, and vegetation, reflecting the natural landscape of the region
- Provides insight into mid-20th century Indiana geography and the evolution of urban and recreational spaces
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.
Published with a 1959 imprint from 1957 US Geological Survey work, “Warsaw” presents northern Indiana in the disciplined, elegant language of mid-century American topography. At 1:24,000 scale, the map centers on Warsaw and Winona Lake, setting the urban grid, roads, rail lines, lakeshores, woodland, and contours into a precise visual record of Kosciusko County. The USGS style is unmistakable: measured contour intervals trace subtle relief, blue waterways define the region’s lake country, green shading marks parks and wooded ground, and cultural features appear with crisp authority. More than a navigational document, the map captures a landscape at a moment when small-city growth, resort life, agriculture, and transportation networks coexisted in a finely balanced Midwestern geography.
Winona Lake is the map’s great visual and historical anchor, its distinctive outline immediately drawing the eye southeast of Warsaw. Developed in the late nineteenth century as a summer retreat and assembly ground, the lake became associated with recreation, religious gatherings, education, and seasonal tourism. By the time this map was compiled, Winona Lake had already acquired a layered identity: part residential community, part resort landscape, part cultural landmark. The shoreline, roads, nearby woodland, and surrounding settlement patterns shown here evoke the transition from rural lakeside escape to more permanent mid-century community. In cartographic form, the lake appears both natural and social—an irregular body of water around which leisure, development, and local memory had gathered for generations.
Warsaw itself is rendered with the clarity characteristic of USGS mapping, its street pattern and built-up areas set amid lakes, lowlands, rail corridors, and state highways. Indiana State Road 15 and Indiana State Road 25 help frame the city’s connections to the wider region, while railroads and trails speak to older patterns of movement and commerce. Center Lake and Pike Lake lie close to town, emphasizing Warsaw’s identity as a city shaped by water as much as by roads. The map reveals a mid-century community still closely tied to its surrounding countryside, with urban development giving way quickly to open land, wooded tracts, drainage ways, and smaller lakes that punctuate the glacial terrain.
The wider sheet is rich with the hydrological character of northern Indiana. Lake Tippecanoe, Crooked Lake, Yellow Creek, Jones Lake, Silver Lake, Boggs Lake, and numerous unnamed ponds and wetlands form a network of water features that give the landscape its distinctive rhythm. These lakes are not decorative details; they are geological evidence, reminders of the glacial processes that shaped Kosciusko County’s rolling ground and basin-filled terrain. Contour lines gently articulate changes in elevation, allowing the viewer to read ridges, slopes, and low-lying corridors with quiet precision. Green-shaded wooded areas and parks introduce texture and contrast, suggesting habitats, recreation grounds, and patches of older landscape within an otherwise cultivated and settled region.
As a historical document, this map offers a refined snapshot of Indiana in the late 1950s, a period when automobile routes, expanding towns, schools, recreation areas, and rural land uses were being reorganized around modern infrastructure. The inclusion of places such as the Triton School District, local roads, rail lines, and lakeside communities gives the sheet a lived-in quality, connecting official survey work with everyday geography. The US Geological Survey’s standardized topographic method lends the scene scientific restraint, yet the result is quietly evocative: a portrait of Warsaw and Winona Lake before later waves of suburban expansion and recreational development further transformed the area. It is a map of place, movement, memory, and measured change.
Cities, towns and places on this map
- Winona Lake
- Warsaw
- Lake Tippecanoe
- Center Lake
- Pike Lake
- Crooked Lake
- Yellow Creek
- Jones Lake
- Silver Lake
- Boggs Lake
- Triton School District
- Indiana State Road 15
- Indiana State Road 25
- Several parks and wooded areas indicated by green shading
- Various unnamed smaller lakes and ponds
- Railroads and trails as indicated by the map features
Historical context & cartographic details
- Historical 1:24,000 topographical map dated 1957 with a 1959 imprint
- Published by the US Geological Survey (USGS), known for standardized scientific and geological mapping
- Shows survey data collected by the US Geological Survey
- Winona Lake has historical significance as a recreational area developed in the late 19th century as a summer retreat
- Uses traditional topographical cartographic design, with contour lines to depict elevation
- Features color coding to indicate land uses such as parks and urban areas
- Depicts varied elevations, lakes, and vegetation, reflecting the natural landscape of the region
- Provides insight into mid-20th century Indiana geography and the evolution of urban and recreational spaces
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.
Many of our maps and art prints are chosen as thoughtful gifts for homes, offices, studies and meaningful places.
Choose a framed option for the easiest ready-to-hang gift, or choose an unframed print if the recipient may prefer to select their own frame.
We make orders locally in 23 countries around the world, so gifts can often be produced close to the recipient. This helps them arrive faster, travel more safely, and avoid customs or import duty surprises.
- We can deliver directly to the recipient
- Framed pieces arrive ready to hang
- Unframed prints are carefully packed in a strong protective tube
- Almost every order is made locally, for faster, safer gifting
- 90-day returns give the recipient time to decide
If you are not sure what to choose, please contact us. We can help you pick the right map, size, finish or delivery option.
Most orders are made locally and delivered in around 2–3 working days, depending on the product, size and destination.
We print and frame maps and artwork in 23 countries around the world, so your order is usually made close to you or your recipient. That means faster delivery, less time in transit, and no customs or import duty surprises.
Personalised and customised pieces usually take an extra 1–2 working days, because we prepare your design and send it to you for approval before printing.
Very large framed orders can take a little longer, as they need extra care in production and delivery.
Every order is carefully packaged: unframed prints are sent in a strong protective tube, while framed pieces are securely packed with protective materials around the frame.
If you need your order by a particular date, please contact us before ordering. We’ll check the best production route and delivery option for your location.
Express delivery is available at checkout for most countries. Next-day delivery is available in the UK, US, Singapore and the UAE.
Your order is covered by our 90-day returns policy and 10-year guarantee.
Our standard frame is a gallery-style black ash hardwood frame, with a simple, modern look. It is approximately 20mm (0.8in) wide. You can also view some lovely customer photos of framed maps and art.
We use super-clear acrylic glazing, also known as Perspex or Acrylite, instead of traditional glass. It is lighter, safer, and has lower reflectivity, giving the artwork a clearer, cleaner appearance.
Six standard frame colours are available at no extra cost: black, dark brown, dark grey, oak, white, and antique gold. Custom framing and mounting/matting is also available for customers looking for something more specific.
Most maps, art prints, and illustrations are also available as a framed canvas. We use matte cotton canvas, stretch it over a sustainably sourced wooden box frame, and then float the piece within a wooden outer frame. The finished result is beautifully presented, with no glazing between you and the artwork.
All frames are supplied ready to hang, with either string or brackets fitted to the back. Very large frames will include heavy-duty hanging plates and/or a mounting baton. If you have any questions, please get in touch.
We can also supply old maps and artwork on canvas, foam board, cotton rag, and other materials.
If you would prefer to frame your map or artwork yourself, please read our size guide before ordering.
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
Every Unique Maps piece begins with an authentic cartographic source or an original design from our London studio.
For our historic maps, we source rare originals from libraries, archives, auction houses and private collections around the world. We carefully restore each map for print—repairing age-related damage, balancing colour and improving clarity while preserving its original detail, texture and character.
Once restored, the map is prepared for your chosen size and finish. Your piece is then printed and, where selected, framed close to its delivery destination.
Our map prints use acid-free 200gsm archival matte paper and fade-resistant pigment inks, creating a rich, non-glossy finish designed to last. Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.
Canvas, cotton-rag and other specialist presentations are also available. Learn more about our materials and finishes.
Personalising your map
You can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. For personalised designs, we send a proof before printing and you can request changes before approval.
For more complex bespoke commissions, contact our design team.
Original or Aged
Choose Original for true-to-source colour, or Aged for a warmer, richer antique character created with our specialist ageing process. See examples of our Aged maps.
We’ve been restoring and producing maps and art prints since 1984, and we stand behind every piece.
Every order is covered by our 10-year guarantee and damage-free delivery guarantee. If your piece arrives damaged, we’ll replace or remake it free of charge. If anything else isn’t right, contact our workshop team and we’ll put it right promptly.
See our returns and refund policy for full details.
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