Early Ottawa County Road Maps

    A 1937 road map that was distributed at Gulf gasoline stations along Route 66 and other roads shows the Tri-State lead and zinc mining district as it looked then. Many of these small villages are completely gone now.  Route 66 divides Ottawa County into half by entering just south of Baxter Springs, Kansas and leaving just south of Afton.

Population of Ottawa County towns in 1937.

Miami                    8064                             Picher               7773            

Commerce             2608                             Douthat            2040             

Quapaw                 1340                              Afton                1219         

Cardin                    437                               N. Miami          503               

Hockerville            550                               Fairland            679                                    

A 1940s map of Ottawa County, Oklahoma

The 1937 map.

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