Oregon in 1883 - Portland, Salem, Eugene

This Oregon map was issued in 1883 as part of George Franklin Cram's Unrivaled Family Atlas of the World, published in Chicago by A.C. Shewey & Co. and counted among the first mass-produced world atlases in American publishing, with 65 maps in the original run.

Oregon appears here at a scale of roughly 1:2,160,000, its state boundary rendered in red and county lines in green, with relief shown through hachures. Portland and Salem are both marked, along with the Columbia and Willamette rivers, and railroads are drawn across the state to reflect the rail expansion driving Oregon's growth at the time. The Willamette Valley's wheat farms, already the state's agricultural backbone by 1883, are traced across the map's northwest, ground first broken by the Oregon Trail settlers who'd made the same valley their destination decades earlier. Greenwich and Washington serve as the prime meridians.

A print like this suits anyone with Oregon roots, a Pacific Northwest transplant who wants a piece of home, or a collector working through Cram's earliest atlas maps. TheMapVault also carries an 1893 Cram Oregon map from a decade later and an entirely different atlas, so collectors often pair the two. It ships unframed and comes in multiple sizes.