“Kerrville Quadrangle” presents the Texas Hill Country around Kerrville as surveyed in 1964 and published with a 1967 imprint by the United States Geological Survey. At the intimate 1:24,000 quadrangle scale, the map captures a mid-century portrait of a city poised between frontier landscape and modern growth. Kerrville appears in red, its street grid, roads, and civic infrastructure standing out against the subtler greens and whites of surrounding vegetation, pasture, and open ground. The Guadalupe River, the defining natural feature of the area, threads through the map as both a geographic anchor and a reminder of why settlement, travel, and recreation converged here.

The USGS quadrangle tradition is one of the great achievements of American scientific cartography, combining field survey, aerial interpretation, standardized symbols, and rigorous elevation measurement into maps of remarkable clarity. This sheet reflects that discipline beautifully: roads and trails are crisply differentiated, waterways are carefully traced, and the landscape is modeled through closely spaced contour lines. Rather than presenting Texas as an abstract expanse, the map reveals the practical texture of place—valleys, ridgelines, drainage patterns, wooded slopes, and developed corridors. It is cartography made for engineers, planners, geologists, hikers, land managers, and citizens who needed to understand the ground beneath their feet.

Kerrville’s setting is rendered with particular eloquence through the map’s topographic language. The surrounding hills rise and fall around the Guadalupe River valley, their contours describing the broken limestone country that gives this part of Texas its distinctive character. The city occupies a comparatively favorable position along the river corridor, while the neighboring uplands and smaller valleys show the constraints and opportunities that shaped local roads, neighborhoods, and open spaces. Minor ponds and water bodies, intermittent drainages, and green areas punctuate the terrain, suggesting a landscape where water, shade, and elevation have always influenced patterns of habitation and movement.

As a historical document, the map is especially compelling for what it preserves of Kerrville in the mid-1960s. Its red urban imprint records the extent of development before later decades of expansion altered the city’s footprint and surrounding land use. Roads and trails indicate the transportation network of the period, while the distribution of open land, vegetation, recreational spaces, and lightly developed areas offers a valuable comparison with the contemporary Hill Country. For collectors, historians, and anyone connected to Kerrville, the sheet becomes more than a technical survey: it is a snapshot of a community at a precise moment in its evolution.

The design is characteristically elegant in the USGS manner, balancing scientific precision with visual accessibility. Green areas indicate vegetation and parkland, white fields suggest more open or less wooded terrain, blue waterways and ponds articulate the hydrology, and red symbols draw attention to the human-built environment. This restrained color system allows the eye to move easily between city, river, road, and hill, making the map both information-rich and quietly beautiful. In “Kerrville Quadrangle,” the measured art of topography meets the cultural geography of central Texas, preserving the relationship between town and landscape in a form both authoritative and evocative.

Cities, towns and places on this map

• Kerrville
• Guadalupe River
• Various roads and trails shown in red
• Surrounding valleys and hills
• Recreational parks and green spaces
• Nearby bodies of water, including minor lakes or ponds

Historical context & cartographic details

• Produced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS)
• Historical 1:24,000 topographical map of Kerrville, Texas and the surrounding area
• Dated 1964 with a 1967 imprint
• Shows urban infrastructure and natural features in and around Kerrville
• Includes a clear legend and scale
• Uses color contrasts, with green for vegetation, white for areas with less cover, and red for urban areas
• Features contour lines to show elevation changes and the hilly terrain surrounding Kerrville
• Reflects mid-20th-century land use and geographic characteristics
• Useful for comparing later urban development in Kerrville and changes in land cover

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.