OregonMapCo

Here's the updated announcement:

Welcome to Oregon Map Co. — Vintage USGS Maps, Reproduced for Your Walls

We're so glad you're here!

Oregon Map Co. was born out of a simple discovery: a collection of 25 original USGS topographic survey maps of Oregon, dating from the 1940s through the 1980s, quietly preserved in their original condition. These maps document Oregon as it once was: Mt. Hood's southern slopes in 1962, Cannon Beach in 1955, the streets of East Portland before the freeways arrived, and the Bethany hills when they were still open farmland. We couldn't keep them to ourselves.
Each map in our shop is a high-quality reproduction scanned directly from one of these original documents, printed on premium matte paper so every contour line, elevation marking, and hand-lettered place name comes through exactly as the original surveyors intended.

Our First Release — Mt. Hood, 1962

We're proud to launch Oregon Map Co. with our first reproduction: a 1962 USGS topographic survey of Mt. Hood's southern slopes, centered on Timberline Lodge. This map captures the mountain exactly as it was surveyed over sixty years ago, every glacier, ridge, and drainage feature documented with the precision and care that defined mid-century American cartography. It's available now in two sizes and makes a stunning piece for any home, cabin, or office.


Coming Soon

We are actively working on digitizing the rest of our collection, and new maps will be added to the shop in the coming weeks. Next up:

Sauvie Island — Oregon's beloved river island, frozen in time
East Portland — surveyed before I-205 fundamentally changed the landscape
Lake Oswego — a gorgeous piece of local history
Bethany / Rock Creek — when the west hills were still open farmland
Sandy — gateway to Mt. Hood, captured in a quieter era
Corvallis — home of the Beavers, documented in stunning topo detail
Tillamook Head — the dramatic coastal headland between Seaside and Cannon Beach
Seaside — Oregon's iconic coast, surveyed decades before modern development
Cannon Beach — Haystack Rock and the surrounding coast as they were first mapped

If any of these locations hold a special place in your heart — or on your wall — follow the shop to be notified the moment they go live.

How These Maps Were Made

Every map in our collection originated as a USGS 7.5 Minute Quadrangle survey, part of one of the most ambitious cartographic projects in American history. Field teams were dispatched across the country to walk, measure, and record the land with extraordinary precision. Surveyors used a combination of aerial photography, ground-level measurements, and stereoscopic plotting instruments to calculate elevation and terrain. The resulting data was hand-drafted by trained cartographers, every contour line, road, structure, and waterway carefully inked onto a master sheet before being printed for public distribution. These weren't just maps. They were scientific documents, produced with a level of craft and dedication that the modern world has largely replaced with satellite imagery and algorithms.

When you hang one of these prints on your wall, you're not just displaying a piece of Oregon geography — you're preserving a moment in time, drawn by hand, in the field, by someone who stood on that very ground.
Explore the collection and find your piece of Oregon history.