| Map | From (retreival year) | Description | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colville National Forest 1918 Administrative map |
UO* (2023) | U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service; compiled at District Office, Portland, 1917 by C.A. Lord; traced by D.H.
Blakelock and R.H. Robertson. Printed by the U.S. Geological Survey. 1918. Scale, ca. 1:253,440. Public land (Township & Range) grid. Black & white. 30 x 63 cm. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows national forest, international and county boundaries, settlements, roads, trails, railroads, corrals, rivers, lakes, and streams. “Willamette Meridian.” Holdings: Univ. of California, Berkeley; Univ. of Oregon; Univ. of Washington OCLC: 19350192† |
CNF-1918.pdf (90 MB) |
| Colville National Forest 1922 front Forest visitor map |
UO* (2023) | U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service; compiled at District Office, Portland, 1917 by C.A. Lord; traced by D.H.
Blakelock and R.H. Robertson; revised March 1922 by E.R. Knox. Engraved and printed by the U.S. Geological Survey. [1924] Scale, ca. 1:253,440. Public land (Township & Range) grid. Black & white. 30 x 63 cm., folded to 23 x 10 cm. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows national forest, international, and county boundaries, towns and settlements, roads, trails, railroads, rivers, lakes, and streams, and Forest Service administrative facilities and other structures. In a broad hatching pattern, shows “State land exchange area under Proclamation [1614] dated Nov. 4, 1921. “Willamette Meridian.” NA copy date stamped “May 1 1924.” LC copy date stamped “May 23 1924.” Text and black & white illustrations on verso. Panel title same as inside title. Panel illustration, captioned, black & white photograph, “Fire lookout house on White Mountain.” On back panel of folded map, “Government Printing Office.” Reference: Monthly Catalog (U.S. GPO) No. 352 (April 1924), page 592. Holdings: Univ. of Michigan; Univ. of Oregon; Univ. of Washington; LC; NA OCLC: 19350205† |
CNF-1922-front.pdf (120 MB) |
| Colville National Forest 1922 back | UO* (2023) | See full descritption on previous map. This back side of the 1922 CNF map has a bunch of cool photos and some history and helpful tips for visitors. |
CNF-1922-back.pdf (134 MB) |
| Colville National Forest 1928 Administrative map |
UO* (2023) | U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service; compiled at District Office, Portland, 1917 from U.S.G.S., G.L.O., Forest
Service, and other surveys, by C.A. Lord; traced by D.H. Blakelock and R.H. Robertson; [revised 1922 and 1928]. Printed by the U.S. Geological Survey. 1928. Scale, ca. 1:126,720. Public land (Township & Range) grid. Color. 60 x 125 cm. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows national forest, international, and county boundaries, towns and settlements, roads, trails, railroads, lakes, and drainage and Forest Service administrative facilities and other buildings. Alienated lands within the national forest boundary shown in red. “Willamette Meridian.” Holdings: Univ. of Oregon OCLC: 28162105† |
CNF-1928.pdf (1.2 GB) |
| Colville National Forest 1931 Forest visitor map (front) |
UO* (2023) | U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Pacific Region, Portland, Oregon. U.S. Government Printing
Office: 1931. 1931. Scale, ca. 1:253,440. Public land (Township & Range) grid. Color. 31 x 63 cm., folded to 23 x 11 cm. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Main Roads and road numbers, and improved forest camps shown in red. Also shows national forest, international, and county boundaries, towns and settlements, roads, trails, railroads, Forest Service administrative facilities and other structures, rivers, lakes, and streams. “Willamette Meridian.” Text and black & white illustrations on verso. Panel title: Colville National Forest, Washington: Its Purposes and Resources. Author information (above) from panel title. Panel illustration, captioned, black & white photograph, “A highway through big timber.” Also on panel title, “Issued April, 1931.” Reference: Monthly Catalog (U.S. GPO) No. 436 (April 1931), page 867. Holdings: Colorado School of Mines, Univ. of Chicago; Univ. of Illinois; Cornell Univ.; Univ. of Oregon; Univ. of Washington; Washington State Univ.; LC; NA OCLC: 5401046† |
CNF-1931.pdf (368 MB) |
| Colville National Forest 1940 | WA rural heritage (2023) | Colville National Forest, Washington, Willamette Meridian, Hazard Map. This 1935 map (revised from previous iterations in 1935) shows the Colville National Forest from Waneta in the northeast to Omak in the southwest. It has been locally modified to display fire hazards related to unburned slash, blowdowns, and dead tree areas throughout the national forest. The annotation includes years through 1941, indicating this was used in the 1940s. | CNF-1940.jpg (10 MB) | Colville National Forest 1953 Forest visitor map (front) |
UO* (2024) | U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service; prepared at Regional Office, Missoula, Montana by Theodora Reed, 1953. Agriculture – Missoula. 1953. Scale, ca. 1:506,880. W11850’ – W11600’/N4900’ – N4730’. Public land (Township & Range) grid. Color. 42 x 48 cm., folded to 23 x 11 cm. Relief shown by hachures. Lands of the Colville National Forest shown in green; water features in blue. Also shows national forest, Indian Reservation, international, state, and county boundaries, towns and settlements, roads, lakes and streams, campgrounds, Forest Service administrative locations and other structures. Public land grid in Washington based on the Willamette Meridian; public land grid in Idaho based on the Boise Meridian. Text and black & white illustrations on verso. Panel title: Colville National Forest, Northern Region. Title panel also has location map and “Forest Supervisor, Colville, Washington.” Holdings: Univ. of Arizona; Southern Illinois Univ.; Univ. of Montana; Univ. of Oregon; Oregon State Univ. Southern Methodist Univ.; Univ. of Washington; LC OCLC: 35302528† |
CNF-1953.pdf (23.1 MB) |
| Document: History of the Colville National Forest 1941 | Office of the Secretary of State | Washington State Library WA rural heritage (2024) |
A report from Forest Supervisor, Kurtz, M. V. This is a cool snapshot of historical perspective from mid 19th century. Includes interesting info on mining, grazing, forestry, land swaps and acquisition in the early years of Colville National forest. Also includes yearly accounting of all forest service personel from about 1915 to 1940. | History of Colville National Forest (167.5 MB) |
* The UO maps here are from University of Oregon (UO). A huge thank you to Kathy Stroud Cartographic, Spatial Data, and Government Documents Librarian at Knight Library at University of Oregon. These PDFs are converted from huge TIFF files. If you want the TIFF, let me know. Otherwise, these PDFs are big enough to print at original size with good fidelity.
† Description from Names, Boundaries, and Maps: A Resource for the Historical Geography of the National Forest System of the United States the Pacific Northwest Region (Region 6) (PDF, 22 MB). This document is a great resource that describes administrative history of Colville National Forest and an index of all the Forest Service maps.