Rare Old Map of Hot Springs, Arkansas by USGS, 1966 – Lake Hamilton, Lake Catherine & Ouachita Mountains
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Restored from the original 1967 map and printed to museum-grade archival standards. Full description
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“Hot Springs North” captures one of Arkansas’s most storied landscapes at a precise mid-century moment: surveyed in 1966 and published in 1967...
Continue reading“Hot Springs North” captures one of Arkansas’s most storied landscapes at a precise mid-century moment: surveyed in 1966 and published in 1967 by the United States Geological Survey. At the detailed 1:24,000 scale, the map presents Hot Springs and its northern surroundings with the clarity and authority that made USGS quadrangles indispensable to engineers, planners, hikers, historians, and collectors. The visual language is immediately appealing: bright green distinguishes wooded and vegetated areas, red marks the urban fabric, and fine brown contour lines reveal the rise and fall of the land. Together, these elements transform the famous “Spa City” from a destination associated with bathhouses and leisure into a richly structured terrain of ridges, valleys, roads, water, and settlement.
The United States Geological Survey, founded in 1879, brought a scientific rigor to American mapping that profoundly shaped how the nation understood its own geography. This map belongs to the USGS tradition of standardized, highly legible topographic quadrangles, created to document both natural landforms and human development with remarkable precision. Rather than emphasizing decoration, the design derives its beauty from accuracy: measured contours, carefully classified roads, streams, lakes, forests, and place names all arranged in a disciplined cartographic system. In “Hot Springs North,” that system is especially effective because the landscape is so varied. The mapmaker’s work reveals not merely where Hot Springs lies, but how the city is fitted into the folds and corridors of the Ouachita Mountains.
Hot Springs, Arkansas, has long owed its identity to the natural thermal waters that emerge from the slopes above the city. Indigenous peoples knew the springs for centuries, and by the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the area had become one of America’s celebrated health and resort destinations. The city’s bathhouse culture gave rise to its enduring nickname, “Spa City,” and its reputation drew visitors seeking treatment, relaxation, and spectacle. On this map, that cultural history is grounded in geography: the thermal springs are not abstract attractions but features of a particular mountain setting. The surrounding roads, neighborhoods, and developed areas show how a spa town expanded around rare natural phenomena.
The topographic character of the map is one of its great pleasures. The Ouachita Mountains appear through tightly spaced contour lines, showing rugged relief and the pronounced elevation changes that define the region. Around the populated areas, the land opens into gentler valleys and flatter corridors, making the contrast between urban settlement and surrounding hills immediately visible. Nearby water features such as Lake Hamilton and Lake Catherine add another dimension to the landscape, emphasizing the role of reservoirs, recreation, and drainage in the region’s development. Roads, trails, and highways thread through the terrain, revealing the practical routes by which people moved between Hot Springs, Fountain Lake, wooded parklands, and the broader mountain country.
As a historical document, “Hot Springs North” preserves the geography and infrastructure of the Hot Springs area at a moment before later decades of growth reshaped land use, road networks, and suburban development. The red urban areas and green forested tracts form a snapshot of the balance between city and woodland in the 1960s, while the contours remain a reminder of the enduring physical framework beneath change. For collectors, the map offers more than local interest: it is a record of how a nationally important mapping agency documented a uniquely American resort landscape. Its combination of scientific precision, regional history, dramatic terrain, and association with Arkansas’s thermal springs gives it lasting appeal.
Cities, towns and places on this map
- Hot Springs
- Lake Catherine
- Lake Hamilton
- Ouachita Mountain
- Spa City (nickname for Hot Springs)
- Fountain Lake
- Hot Springs Village
- Roads, trails, and highways throughout the area
- Rolling hills and valleys surrounding the populated areas
- Parks and forested areas depicted in green shading
- Thermal springs in the vicinity
- Significant contour lines indicating various elevations
Historical context & cartographic details
- Historical 1:24,000 topographical map of Hot Springs, Arkansas and the surrounding area
- Produced by the United States Geological Survey using survey data from 1966 and published in 1967
- USGS has provided reliable, standardized scientific mapping of the United States since 1879
- Highlights Hot Springs, known for its bathhouses and natural thermal springs
- Uses bright green for vegetation and contrasting red for populated areas
- Contour lines indicate elevation and clearly show the area’s topography
- Depicts substantial elevation variation, including the rugged terrain of the Ouachita Mountains and flatter areas near urban settings
- Serves as a record of geographic and urban development in the Hot Springs area
- Shows how land use, infrastructure, and the surrounding landscape have evolved since publication
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.
“Hot Springs North” captures one of Arkansas’s most storied landscapes at a precise mid-century moment: surveyed in 1966 and published in 1967 by the United States Geological Survey. At the detailed 1:24,000 scale, the map presents Hot Springs and its northern surroundings with the clarity and authority that made USGS quadrangles indispensable to engineers, planners, hikers, historians, and collectors. The visual language is immediately appealing: bright green distinguishes wooded and vegetated areas, red marks the urban fabric, and fine brown contour lines reveal the rise and fall of the land. Together, these elements transform the famous “Spa City” from a destination associated with bathhouses and leisure into a richly structured terrain of ridges, valleys, roads, water, and settlement.
The United States Geological Survey, founded in 1879, brought a scientific rigor to American mapping that profoundly shaped how the nation understood its own geography. This map belongs to the USGS tradition of standardized, highly legible topographic quadrangles, created to document both natural landforms and human development with remarkable precision. Rather than emphasizing decoration, the design derives its beauty from accuracy: measured contours, carefully classified roads, streams, lakes, forests, and place names all arranged in a disciplined cartographic system. In “Hot Springs North,” that system is especially effective because the landscape is so varied. The mapmaker’s work reveals not merely where Hot Springs lies, but how the city is fitted into the folds and corridors of the Ouachita Mountains.
Hot Springs, Arkansas, has long owed its identity to the natural thermal waters that emerge from the slopes above the city. Indigenous peoples knew the springs for centuries, and by the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the area had become one of America’s celebrated health and resort destinations. The city’s bathhouse culture gave rise to its enduring nickname, “Spa City,” and its reputation drew visitors seeking treatment, relaxation, and spectacle. On this map, that cultural history is grounded in geography: the thermal springs are not abstract attractions but features of a particular mountain setting. The surrounding roads, neighborhoods, and developed areas show how a spa town expanded around rare natural phenomena.
The topographic character of the map is one of its great pleasures. The Ouachita Mountains appear through tightly spaced contour lines, showing rugged relief and the pronounced elevation changes that define the region. Around the populated areas, the land opens into gentler valleys and flatter corridors, making the contrast between urban settlement and surrounding hills immediately visible. Nearby water features such as Lake Hamilton and Lake Catherine add another dimension to the landscape, emphasizing the role of reservoirs, recreation, and drainage in the region’s development. Roads, trails, and highways thread through the terrain, revealing the practical routes by which people moved between Hot Springs, Fountain Lake, wooded parklands, and the broader mountain country.
As a historical document, “Hot Springs North” preserves the geography and infrastructure of the Hot Springs area at a moment before later decades of growth reshaped land use, road networks, and suburban development. The red urban areas and green forested tracts form a snapshot of the balance between city and woodland in the 1960s, while the contours remain a reminder of the enduring physical framework beneath change. For collectors, the map offers more than local interest: it is a record of how a nationally important mapping agency documented a uniquely American resort landscape. Its combination of scientific precision, regional history, dramatic terrain, and association with Arkansas’s thermal springs gives it lasting appeal.
Cities, towns and places on this map
- Hot Springs
- Lake Catherine
- Lake Hamilton
- Ouachita Mountain
- Spa City (nickname for Hot Springs)
- Fountain Lake
- Hot Springs Village
- Roads, trails, and highways throughout the area
- Rolling hills and valleys surrounding the populated areas
- Parks and forested areas depicted in green shading
- Thermal springs in the vicinity
- Significant contour lines indicating various elevations
Historical context & cartographic details
- Historical 1:24,000 topographical map of Hot Springs, Arkansas and the surrounding area
- Produced by the United States Geological Survey using survey data from 1966 and published in 1967
- USGS has provided reliable, standardized scientific mapping of the United States since 1879
- Highlights Hot Springs, known for its bathhouses and natural thermal springs
- Uses bright green for vegetation and contrasting red for populated areas
- Contour lines indicate elevation and clearly show the area’s topography
- Depicts substantial elevation variation, including the rugged terrain of the Ouachita Mountains and flatter areas near urban settings
- Serves as a record of geographic and urban development in the Hot Springs area
- Shows how land use, infrastructure, and the surrounding landscape have evolved since publication
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.
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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