Rare Old Map of Salida, Colorado by USGS, 1956 – Arkansas River, Mount Shavano & Collegiate Peaks
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Published in 1963 from 1956 survey work, the US Geological Survey’s “Cameron Mountain” presents a finely detailed mid-century portrait of south-central Colorado,...
Continua a leggerePublished in 1963 from 1956 survey work, the US Geological Survey’s “Cameron Mountain” presents a finely detailed mid-century portrait of south-central Colorado, centered on the dramatic terrain around Salida and the upper Arkansas Valley. The map belongs to the USGS 1:62,500 topographic tradition, a scale well suited to showing both regional landforms and the practical details of roads, trails, streams, and settlement. Salida appears as the principal human landmark, set beside the Arkansas River where mountain travel, rail corridors, recreation, and commerce converged. Around it, contour lines gather and spread across valleys, ridges, and high country, creating a precise visual language of elevation that captures the rugged character of the Colorado Rockies with disciplined scientific elegance.
The US Geological Survey, founded in 1879, became one of the defining institutions in American cartography, translating the nation’s immense and varied landscapes into authoritative topographic sheets. Maps such as this one were essential tools for engineers, foresters, miners, land managers, and travelers, but they also possess a quiet beauty born from accuracy. The “Cameron Mountain” sheet reflects the USGS style at a mature stage: measured lettering, careful hydrography, structured contouring, and color-coded land cover combine to create a map that is both technical and visually compelling. Its depiction of vegetation in light and dark green gives the surrounding forests a readable texture, while the contours and shaded relief convey the steepness and complexity of the terrain.
Geographically, this is a map of contrasts: valley floors and river corridors give way quickly to formidable mountain masses. The Arkansas River, one of the great waterways of the American interior, threads through the scene, anchoring Salida and shaping the broader Arkansas Valley. Nearby waterways, including Pine Creek, Lake Fork, and Cascade Creek, trace the drainage patterns that descend from the high country. These streams are more than cartographic details; they reveal how snowmelt, slope, and geology structure life in the region. The surrounding landforms show the characteristic drama of Colorado topography, where transportation routes and settlements occupy narrow corridors between steep ridges, forested slopes, and alpine approaches.
The presence of Mount Shavano, Mount Antero, and the wider Collegiate Peaks region gives the map a powerful alpine context. These mountains are among the celebrated high summits of Colorado, part of a landscape that has long attracted climbers, prospectors, surveyors, and outdoor travelers. Mount Antero, especially, is known for its mineral wealth, while Mount Shavano forms part of the distinctive Sawatch Range skyline west of the Arkansas Valley. The map’s unnamed trails and roads hint at a landscape in use: routes into forests, mining districts, grazing lands, and recreational terrain. In this way, the sheet records not only mountains and rivers, but the human impulse to move through, work within, and understand a challenging environment.
As a historical document, “Cameron Mountain” captures the Salida area at a moment when mid-20th-century Colorado balanced older patterns of extraction, ranching, and rail-linked settlement with the growing importance of tourism, conservation, and outdoor recreation. Its roads, trails, and land-cover distinctions allow comparison with later maps, revealing how towns expanded, access changed, and forested or protected landscapes were reinterpreted over time. Salida’s historic downtown and riverside setting are shown within a larger geographical frame that explains its endurance: it occupies a strategic passage through a spectacular but demanding mountain region. The map’s appeal lies in this union of precision and place, offering a richly legible view of Colorado’s high valleys, wooded slopes, and monumental peaks.
Cities, towns and places on this map
- Salida
- Arkansas River
- Mount Shavano
- Mount Antero
- Collegiate Peaks
- Arkansas Valley
- Pine Creek
- Lake Fork
- Cascade Creek
- Several unnamed trails and roads
- Various forested areas
- Vegetation classifications shown in light and dark green
Historical context & cartographic details
- Produced by the US Geological Survey as a historical 1:62,500 topographical map.
- Dated 1956 and published with a 1963 imprint.
- Shows the Salida, Colorado area and the surrounding mountain landscape.
- Uses traditional USGS topographic styling, including contour lines and shaded relief to show elevation changes.
- Color shading differentiates vegetation and land use, improving landscape readability.
- Depicts substantial elevation changes, mountain ranges, valleys, and varied Colorado terrain.
- Provides a mid-20th-century snapshot of geographic features and human development in the region.
- Useful for comparison with modern maps to identify changes in land use, urban development, and ecological conservation.
- Reflects the USGS tradition of mapping for land use planning, resource management, and navigation.
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 in 1963 from 1956 survey work, the US Geological Survey’s “Cameron Mountain” presents a finely detailed mid-century portrait of south-central Colorado, centered on the dramatic terrain around Salida and the upper Arkansas Valley. The map belongs to the USGS 1:62,500 topographic tradition, a scale well suited to showing both regional landforms and the practical details of roads, trails, streams, and settlement. Salida appears as the principal human landmark, set beside the Arkansas River where mountain travel, rail corridors, recreation, and commerce converged. Around it, contour lines gather and spread across valleys, ridges, and high country, creating a precise visual language of elevation that captures the rugged character of the Colorado Rockies with disciplined scientific elegance.
The US Geological Survey, founded in 1879, became one of the defining institutions in American cartography, translating the nation’s immense and varied landscapes into authoritative topographic sheets. Maps such as this one were essential tools for engineers, foresters, miners, land managers, and travelers, but they also possess a quiet beauty born from accuracy. The “Cameron Mountain” sheet reflects the USGS style at a mature stage: measured lettering, careful hydrography, structured contouring, and color-coded land cover combine to create a map that is both technical and visually compelling. Its depiction of vegetation in light and dark green gives the surrounding forests a readable texture, while the contours and shaded relief convey the steepness and complexity of the terrain.
Geographically, this is a map of contrasts: valley floors and river corridors give way quickly to formidable mountain masses. The Arkansas River, one of the great waterways of the American interior, threads through the scene, anchoring Salida and shaping the broader Arkansas Valley. Nearby waterways, including Pine Creek, Lake Fork, and Cascade Creek, trace the drainage patterns that descend from the high country. These streams are more than cartographic details; they reveal how snowmelt, slope, and geology structure life in the region. The surrounding landforms show the characteristic drama of Colorado topography, where transportation routes and settlements occupy narrow corridors between steep ridges, forested slopes, and alpine approaches.
The presence of Mount Shavano, Mount Antero, and the wider Collegiate Peaks region gives the map a powerful alpine context. These mountains are among the celebrated high summits of Colorado, part of a landscape that has long attracted climbers, prospectors, surveyors, and outdoor travelers. Mount Antero, especially, is known for its mineral wealth, while Mount Shavano forms part of the distinctive Sawatch Range skyline west of the Arkansas Valley. The map’s unnamed trails and roads hint at a landscape in use: routes into forests, mining districts, grazing lands, and recreational terrain. In this way, the sheet records not only mountains and rivers, but the human impulse to move through, work within, and understand a challenging environment.
As a historical document, “Cameron Mountain” captures the Salida area at a moment when mid-20th-century Colorado balanced older patterns of extraction, ranching, and rail-linked settlement with the growing importance of tourism, conservation, and outdoor recreation. Its roads, trails, and land-cover distinctions allow comparison with later maps, revealing how towns expanded, access changed, and forested or protected landscapes were reinterpreted over time. Salida’s historic downtown and riverside setting are shown within a larger geographical frame that explains its endurance: it occupies a strategic passage through a spectacular but demanding mountain region. The map’s appeal lies in this union of precision and place, offering a richly legible view of Colorado’s high valleys, wooded slopes, and monumental peaks.
Cities, towns and places on this map
- Salida
- Arkansas River
- Mount Shavano
- Mount Antero
- Collegiate Peaks
- Arkansas Valley
- Pine Creek
- Lake Fork
- Cascade Creek
- Several unnamed trails and roads
- Various forested areas
- Vegetation classifications shown in light and dark green
Historical context & cartographic details
- Produced by the US Geological Survey as a historical 1:62,500 topographical map.
- Dated 1956 and published with a 1963 imprint.
- Shows the Salida, Colorado area and the surrounding mountain landscape.
- Uses traditional USGS topographic styling, including contour lines and shaded relief to show elevation changes.
- Color shading differentiates vegetation and land use, improving landscape readability.
- Depicts substantial elevation changes, mountain ranges, valleys, and varied Colorado terrain.
- Provides a mid-20th-century snapshot of geographic features and human development in the region.
- Useful for comparison with modern maps to identify changes in land use, urban development, and ecological conservation.
- Reflects the USGS tradition of mapping for land use planning, resource management, and navigation.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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