Published in 1946 by the United States Geological Survey, “Driggs” is a historically rich 1:62,500 topographical portrait of eastern Idaho’s Teton Valley, centered on the towns of Driggs and Victor. The map captures a moment when this high mountain basin remained defined by agriculture, local roads, waterways, and the commanding presence of surrounding ranges. Its scale allows both settlement patterns and landforms to be read with clarity, placing human development within a dramatic physical setting. Driggs appears not merely as a town, but as a geographic node between valley floor, river corridor, foothills, and alpine terrain—a beautifully measured record of the region as it stood in the mid-twentieth century.

The US Geological Survey brought to this map the disciplined precision for which its topographic sheets became renowned. Contour lines articulate the steep relief of the Teton Range and the Big Hole Mountains, gathering tightly where slopes rise sharply and relaxing across the broader valley floor. The distinctive color palette separates terrain, water, forest, and cultural features, making the landscape legible at a glance while rewarding close study. Roads, trails, streams, wooded areas, and water bodies are woven together with technical elegance. The result is a map that functions both as geographic instrument and historical artifact, translating rugged western terrain into a refined cartographic language.

At the heart of the sheet lies Teton Valley, a fertile upland basin shaped by water, glacial history, and mountain weather. The Teton River and its network of creeks and streams structure the landscape, tracing subtle gradients across the valley and linking settlements, fields, and lowlands. Driggs and Victor appear as modest but important populated places, set within a wider pattern of roads, rural land use, and natural drainage. The map’s depiction of valleys, hills, and possible mine sites evokes a region where ranching, travel, resource use, and seasonal movement all intersected. It offers a vivid impression of daily geography before later waves of growth transformed the area.

The surrounding mountains give the map much of its drama. To the east, the Teton Range rises in powerful relief, its ridges and unnamed peaks rendered through dense contouring and shaded topographic detail. To the west, the Big Hole Mountains form another defining boundary, enclosing the valley and emphasizing its sheltered character. Between these elevated margins, the mapped roads and trails suggest historical routes of passage through a demanding landscape. Forested areas, shown through distinct color variation, mark ecological transitions from valley agriculture to upland woodland and alpine terrain. This interplay of settlement and wilderness is one of the map’s great visual and historical strengths.

As a 1946 topographical record, “Driggs” is especially valuable for understanding change over time in Teton County and the broader Idaho mountain West. Comparing its roads, town footprints, drainage patterns, and land-use indications with contemporary maps reveals shifts in development, transportation, recreation, and environmental management. Yet the map is more than a baseline for comparison; it preserves the historical geography of a valley poised between remoteness and connection. Its careful rendering of rivers, mountains, forests, roads, and communities evokes a landscape still governed by terrain. For collectors, historians, and admirers of western cartography, it is an evocative USGS study of place, altitude, and time.

Cities, towns and places on this map

• Driggs
• Victor
• Teton Valley
• Teton River
• Snake River
• Big Hole Mountains
• Teton Range
• Unnamed mountain peaks and hills
• Highways and local roads
• Unnamed streams and creeks
• Unnamed trails
• Forested areas
• Lakes
• Nearby unnamed landmarks
• Valleys
• Potential mines

Historical context & cartographic details

• Produced by the US Geological Survey.
• Published as a historically significant 1:62,500 topographical map.
• Dated 1946.
• Shows Driggs and Victor in Teton County, Idaho, along with the surrounding region.
• Emphasizes natural features, including mountains, valleys, rivers, water bodies, and forested areas.
• Uses contour lines to depict elevation changes and topographic relief.
• Varying shades and a distinctive color palette help distinguish geographical features.
• Highlights significant elevation changes through the density and shape of contour lines.
• Provides a historical snapshot useful for comparing changes in land use, development, and the environment over time.
• Offers insight into the historical geography of the region, including features that may have changed since 1946.

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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.