Oregon Transportation Maps, 1940-1944

Title: Oregon Transportation Maps, 1940-1944

ID: MAPS ORTransport

Primary Creator: United States. Public Roads Administration

Extent: 0.5 cubic feet. More info below.

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

The Oregon Transportation Maps were prepared by the U.S. Public Roads Administration and document transportation in Oregon, immediately preceding and during World War II, in 1940 and 1944. The collection consists of two sets of 12 maps covering the full state of Oregon, issued in 1940 and 1944. The maps are at a scale of 1:250,000 (1 inch = 4 miles). The maps depict highways and other roads, railroads, air lanes, airports, canals, dredged channels, and ferry routes. For highways and roads, the maps indicate if they are federal; state; or forest, park, or public. The type of pavement is indicated for each road or highway. Five different pavement types are shown on these maps -- (1) unimproved; (2) earth, graded and drained; (3) gravel, traffic-bound, selected materials, sand-clay; (4) processed types, surface treatments, water-bound macadam; and (5) brick, cement-concrete, asphaltic-concrete, bituminous macadam.

In addition to transportation networks, the maps depict cities and towns with a population key. They also denote the locations of county seats. Natural features such as lakes, streams, and mountains are also included with their names; the extent of national and state forests, Indian reservations, and other land reserves are shown.

More Extent Information: 24 maps; 1 map folder

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Note: These materials were transferred from the Oregon State University Libraries' maps collection to the Special Collections & Archives Research Center in 2014.

Related Materials: The Special Collections and Archives Research Center's holdings also include the Oregon State Highway Maps (MAPS ORStateHwy), Highway Maps of Oregon Counties (MAPS Highway), and the Oregon State Highway Division Maps of Oregon Cities and Towns, 1969-1989 (MAPS ORCities).

Preferred Citation: Oregon Transportation Maps (MAPS ORTransport), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

United States. Public Roads Administration

Natural Resources
Oregon--Maps.
Railroads--Oregon--Maps.
Roads--Oregon--Maps.
Transportation--Oregon--Maps.

Maps (documents)
Transportation maps.