The Great Western Wrestling Alliance

The territories year by year, 1957–1993. Counties are shaded by the territory that ran them, and dots mark the towns each promotion worked, sized by whether the market was primary or secondary. Press play or scrub the slider, and watch the 1989 consolidation. The GWA is a fictional promotion; for the real territories, see the Territorial Era map.

Embed this map on your site

Paste this into any page that accepts HTML. It loads a chrome-free version of the map that sizes itself to the frame, and it pulls nothing from third-party tile servers, so there is no API key to manage and nothing to configure.

<iframe
  src="https://maps.gwawrestling.com/embed/gwa-territories"
  title="GWA Territories, 1957–1993"
  width="100%"
  height="620"
  loading="lazy"
  style="border:1px solid #c3b590;border-radius:8px;max-width:100%"
></iframe>

Framing one view

Two query parameters on the embed URL let a post frame the exact view its text is talking about.

?year=1980: Opens on that year instead of 1957. Any year from 1957 to 1993; the reader can still scrub from there.
?highlight=rio: Dims every territory except one. Here, that is Rio Grande Valley. Combine the two with &, e.g. ?year=1980&highlight=rio .

Territory ids

Values accepted by ?highlight=:

rio Rio Grande Valley
ter Columbia
pac Pacific Coast
roc Rocky Mountain
gul Gulf Coast
sou Southwest
can Canada
mex Mexico
grp Great Plains
srn Sierra Nevada