In 1829 the Surveyor General for the State of New York published a map of what was then Montgomery County which at the time included what is now Fulton County. A detail of the map shows how what is now the Town of Caroga was split between the Towns of Stratford and Johnstown. Bleeker would not become established until 1831. The map documents the land patents and their subdivisions into Great Lots. It is striking to see the imposition of these human boundaries on a land that was so little known at the time as evident in the outlines of Fish Lake which is now Canada Lake. According to this map, there are three Caroga Lakes, and Pine and the Stoner Lakes are not even recorded. Over fifty years later in his 1884 Report of the Adirondack and State Land Surveys, Verplanck Colvin would characterize the areas as: "A region of mystery, over which none can gaze without a strange thrill of interest and of wonder at what may be hidden in that vast area of forest (p.31)...."
The map above from 1840 duplicates the 1829 map except that it documents the 1838 split of Fulton County from Montgomery. Also,, whereas in the 1829 map, Bleeker was a part of the Town of Johnstown, in the 1840 map it has become its on entity. The 1840 map also places the Bleeker Post Office in Newkirk Mills. It would not be until April 11, 1842 that the Town of Caroga would be formed composed of parts of the Towns of Stratford, Bleeker, and Johnstown.