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Tilden, Texas Map Art
Building by building, with labeled streets and shaded relief.
12" x 18" Archival Matte Print
A Map of Home. A Work of Art.
Explore Tilden, Texas from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures Tilden building by building, with labeled streets, familiar landmarks, and shaded topographical relief that highlights the natural contours of the landscape.
Combining modern data with the timeless character of a vintage atlas, this map is just as interesting up close as it is beautiful on the wall. Whether you grew up in Tilden, spent memorable years there, or call it home today, this unique map is a great way to celebrate a place that means something to you. Zoom in on the preview to look for your street, and then order a print to put your memories on the wall.
Three ways to hang it
Unframed archival matte, a black wood frame or a white wood frame.
Up close
Geography Worth Displaying
This map was created using accurate cartographic data and authoritative geographic sources, including the U.S. Geological Survey and the Census Bureau. The map brings together terrain, waterways, roads, and building detail. The majority of the streets are labeled, houses are accurately depicted, and the topography is derived from government sources. Combining local data with carefully composed color and shading leads to this beautifully detailed Tilden artwork for your wall.
Rather than simply showing street outlines, we’ve included as many of the street names as we could reasonably fit on the map while keeping their names legible. Zoom in on the high resolution preview to see exactly what’s on the map. We truly set out to create a statement piece for anyone who loves Tilden. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of Tilden brings back fond memories.
Find your street
Names on the Tilden map
Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.
Streets and roads17
- River Street
- Congress Street
- Washington Street
- Main Street
- Hackberry Street
- Lowe Street
- Ash Street
- Live Oak Street
- East Street
- Frio Street
- Mesquite Street
- Goff Street
- Mason Street
- Miller Street
- Water Street
- Elm Street
- Martin Street
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About Tilden, Texas
Tilden is the county seat of McMullen County, a community of 190 people about 70 miles south of San Antonio. Settlers founded it in 1858 where Leoncita Creek empties into the Frio River, making it one of the county's first two settlements. During the Civil War a Home Guard post called Camp Rio Frio went up to defend it against Apaches and bandits.
After the war the place went by Dog Town and had a name for lawlessness and outlaws. It got a post office in 1871. When McMullen County was organized in 1877, Dog Town became the county seat, and that year the site was surveyed and renamed Tilden, most likely for Samuel J. Tilden, the Democrat who lost the 1876 presidential race. A ferry over the Frio opened in 1879, and about 1880 stagecoaches on the San Antonio-Laredo road began stopping here on a regular schedule.
- Boot Hill CemeteryMany of the people buried at Boot Hill died violently, "with their boots on," in accidents or murders, and others died in a cholera epidemic in 1869. In 1877 the town gave it up for the new Hill Top Cemetery, and over more than half a century many markers fell and were lost.
- Boot Hill restored in 1955In 1955 the newly formed Cenizo Garden Club took on the old Boot Hill Cemetery. Members cleared the brush, cleaned the plots, found as many graves as they could and ringed the grounds with native stone. They added a big masonry boot set on a slab of petrified palm stump as a sign, and the club won the historical marker that stands at the entrance.
- A Baptist college in 1881Old McMullin College opened in Tilden in 1881, led by John Van Epps Covey and backed by the Baptist Church. In 1897 its buildings passed to the Tilden School District.
- The Franklin Ranch, 1868Ralph S. Franklin built the Franklin Ranch in 1868, the community's first establishment. Today it is the Lone Star Camp, a hunting and working ranch camp that the Franklin family still owns.
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The art of mapping a place
How This Map Was Made
Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.
The view from above
Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.
The shape of the land
Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.
The details of home
Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.
Geography becomes art
Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.
Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.
The Details
About This Print
Choose an archival matte print, or a black or white Ayous wood frame. The archival matte print is unframed.
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Materials & Craftsmanship
A contemporary map with the character of a classic atlas, printed on archival matte paper. Optional frames are made from Ayous wood.
Your printed map does not include the watermark shown in the full-map preview.
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