{"product_id":"old-map-of-brookings-south-dakota-by-usgs-1964-south-dakota-state-university-u-s-route-14","title":"Old Map of Brookings, South Dakota by USGS, 1964 – South Dakota State University \u0026 U.S. Route 14","description":"\u003cp\u003eTitled “Brookings,” this United States Geological Survey quadrangle presents the city of Brookings, South Dakota, and its surrounding prairie landscape with the disciplined clarity of modern American topographic cartography. Based on original survey data collected in 1964 and issued with a 1982 imprint, the map offers a fascinating layered moment: a mid-twentieth-century portrait preserved through a later federal publication. At 1:24,000 scale, it captures the city and countryside in fine detail, balancing street grids, rail lines, highways, waterways, contour lines, and land-use patterns. The result is both practical and evocative—a precise geographical document of Brookings before later phases of expansion, suburban development, and institutional growth reshaped the area.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrookings itself occupies the heart of the map, its ordered streets and neighborhoods set within the broader geometry of eastern South Dakota’s agricultural lands. The presence of South Dakota State University is especially significant, anchoring the city not only as a regional center but as an academic and cultural landmark. The map records the relationship between campus, town, roads, railroads, and surrounding fields, revealing how education, transportation, and agriculture shaped the local landscape. U.S. Route 14 and other roadways situate Brookings within wider regional movement, while rail lines recall the infrastructure that helped bind prairie communities to markets, migration routes, and the economic rhythms of the Great Plains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a USGS topographic map, “Brookings” is distinguished by its elegant system of contour lines, color coding, and carefully standardized symbols. Subtle elevation changes are translated into a readable terrain model, giving visual form to a landscape that might otherwise seem deceptively level. Water features, open land, vegetated areas, urban development, and transportation corridors are differentiated through the familiar palette of federal cartography. This precision makes the map more than a city plan: it is a measured portrait of landform and land use. The contours, roads, and boundaries together communicate how settlement adapted to drainage, soil, elevation, and access across the prairie environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe historical value of the map lies in its depiction of Brookings at a transitional point in the city’s development. The 1964 survey data preserves an era when the city was already an important educational and agricultural hub, yet had not experienced the full extent of later urban growth. Residential districts, commercial areas, agricultural fields, parks, and institutional grounds appear in a pattern that invites comparison with the modern city. For historians, planners, genealogists, and collectors, the map offers evidence of how Brookings’ built environment once related to its rural surroundings. It records not only where features stood, but how a community organized itself in space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe United States Geological Survey brought to maps like this a distinctive combination of scientific rigor and understated visual beauty. Founded in 1879, the agency became central to mapping the nation’s terrain, resources, watersheds, and settlements, producing quadrangles that remain among the most trusted geographic records of the United States. In “Brookings,” that tradition is visible in every contour, symbol, and line of infrastructure. The map turns a specific South Dakota locality into a richly legible historical landscape, where university grounds, highways, railroads, parks, fields, and waterways coexist within a precise topographic framework. It is a refined cartographic record of place, progress, and prairie geography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCities, towns and places on this map\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrookings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSouth Dakota State University\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHighways, including U.S. Route 14\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRailroads\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eParks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVarious neighborhoods within Brookings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNearby water bodies, including rivers and lakes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForested areas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAgricultural lands and fields\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContour lines indicating terrain elevation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBoundaries of different land use, including residential, agricultural, and commercial areas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMines, if indicated on the map\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHistorical context \u0026amp; cartographic details\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMap title: \u003cstrong\u003eBrookings\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProduced by the \u003cstrong\u003eUnited States Geological Survey (USGS)\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical \u003cstrong\u003e1:24,000-scale topographic map\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOriginal survey data was collected in \u003cstrong\u003e1964\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished with a \u003cstrong\u003e1982 imprint\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUses color to distinguish urban areas, open land, vegetation, and other landscape features\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReflects the Brookings area before later phases of significant urban development\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUseful for studying changes in land use, infrastructure, and urban growth since the 1960s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTypical of USGS topographic mapping, combining practical geographic detail with clear visual design\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLooking for a particular place?\u003c\/strong\u003e Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, \u003ca target=\"”_blank”\" href=\"\/es\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eask our workshop to check before you order\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDetailed 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). 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