Royce Treaty Area 12

The Royce Map of 1884 – Treaty Number 12, signed in the year 1798. 

Treaty of Oct 2, 1798, with United States: Ceding a Tract in Tennessee, between Hawkin’s Line, Tennessee River, and Chilhowee Mountain. Ceding an area of 271 square miles.  Resulting in 40261 square miles remaining. The percent of the original area remaining is: 32.48% This treaty ceded 0.219% of the total original area of 123,960 square miles.

Explore the Royce Map’s High Level of Detail

Click on the Royce 1884 Map above to open the Library of Congress high definition scan (in a new window) of the original map. This map of the “Former Territorial Limits of the Cherokee “Nation of” Indians”. Give the map a little time to load and you will be able to explore the high level of detail cartographer Royce was able to capture.

The blue area is one of of the 38 Territories of the Cherokee homeland ceded by treaty. The image above was generated by georectifying the Royce 1884 Map over a modern Geographic Information System (GIS) map.

The Map Legend

The image above is a high definition scan of the the legend section from the original Map of the Former Territorial Limits of the Cherokee “Nation of” Indians. Also know as the 1884 Royce Map.

By mapping these treaty areas with a Geographic Information System (GIS) we area able to produce size and percentage loss statistics. Click here for the statistics.

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