{"product_id":"old-map-of-dallas-texas-by-usgs-1931-highland-park-university-park","title":"Old Map of Dallas, Texas by USGS, 1931 – Highland Park \u0026 University Park","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Carrollton,” published by the United States Geological Survey in 1938 using survey data from 1931, captures a revealing moment in the early metropolitan history of North Texas. Drawn at a 1:62,500 scale, it presents Dallas, Highland Park, University Park, and the surrounding country with the measured clarity of interwar American topography. The title points northward to Carrollton, then a distinct community rather than a seamlessly absorbed part of the Dallas urban region. Yet the map’s broader interest lies in its portrayal of a landscape on the cusp of transformation: established city streets, suburban enclaves, rural roads, waterways, and open ground all appear together, documenting the threshold between the older agricultural terrain of Dallas County and the expanding modern city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe United States Geological Survey brought to this map the disciplined visual language that made its quadrangles indispensable to engineers, planners, travelers, and public agencies. Founded in the late nineteenth century, the USGS became the nation’s authoritative mapper of elevation, drainage, settlement, and infrastructure, producing sheets that were both practical tools and elegant records of place. Here, contour lines, road classifications, water features, landmarks, and place names are arranged with the restrained precision typical of early twentieth-century federal cartography. The result is a map that feels at once technical and atmospheric: a document designed for land management and navigation, yet rich with the historical texture of a region before the freeway age reshaped its scale and movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDallas appears as the dominant urban presence, already a commercial and cultural force in Texas, but still markedly different from the immense metropolitan center it would become. Highland Park and University Park, shown nearby, offer a fascinating counterpoint: planned, affluent residential communities with their own identities, civic structures, and carefully cultivated landscapes. Their inclusion underscores the emergence of suburban prestige around Dallas well before the explosive growth of the postwar decades. Roads and highways radiate through the sheet, linking neighborhoods, towns, parks, and open areas, while the mapped pattern of settlement hints at the forces that would later knit these communities into one of the most dynamic urban regions in the American Southwest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe map’s topographical character is especially compelling because North Texas elevation changes are often subtle rather than dramatic. The intricate contour lines reveal gentle rises, shallow valleys, drainage corridors, and the slight undulations that influenced road placement, neighborhood development, and water management. Rivers, creeks, lakes, and other water bodies provide the natural framework beneath the urban grid, reminding the viewer that Dallas’s growth was shaped not only by commerce and transportation but also by terrain and hydrology. Parks and green spaces punctuate the built environment, while symbols for roads, landmarks, and civic features give the sheet a dense yet legible quality. Its traditional USGS styling transforms modest elevation shifts into a finely readable portrait of the land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eViewed today, “Carrollton” is historically valuable as a pre-boom record of a landscape that has been profoundly altered. Since its 1938 publication, Dallas and its northern suburbs have expanded into a densely populated metropolitan fabric, with new highways, subdivisions, commercial districts, reservoirs, and engineered drainage systems changing both the appearance and function of the land. What the map preserves is the earlier geography beneath that growth: the roads before expressways dominated, the suburban edges before they merged, and the waterways before modern urban management reshaped their surroundings. It offers a rare, elegant view of Dallas, Highland Park, University Park, and neighboring communities at a pivotal stage in their evolution from distinct places into the modern Metroplex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCities, towns and places on this map\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDallas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHighland Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUniversity Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVarious roads and highways\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWater bodies, including rivers and lakes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eParks and green spaces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNeighborhoods within Dallas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHistorical context \u0026amp; cartographic details\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical 1:62,500 topographical map titled \u003cstrong\u003e“Carrollton”\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished by the \u003cstrong\u003eUnited States Geological Survey (USGS)\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreated from 1931 data and published in 1938\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShows the surrounding area of North Texas before major later urban and suburban expansion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe USGS produced this type of topographical map to provide geographic information for public use, planning, and land management\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFeatures classic early 20th-century USGS cartographic styling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUses contour lines to show elevation changes and terrain variation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes symbols for roads, water features, landmarks, and other landscape details\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDocuments a region that has since been transformed by metropolitan growth, changing transportation networks, water management, 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). If you are looking for a larger map, please \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eget in touch\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe model in the listing images is holding the 16x20in (40x50cm) version of this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere personalisation is available, you can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. \u003ca target=\"”_blank”\" href=\"\/fr\/pages\/map-personalisation\"\u003eSee personalised map examples\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery 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. 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