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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: TOWN division visual guide
Date: Thurs, 27 Oct 2005
From: Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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Another good visual reference is:
United States Atlas of Townships, Andriot, 1977.
This is a state-by-state look at the sub-county districts of each state,
and still quite useful for it's date. I almost consider this to be
cataloging tool when cataloging maps of states showing counties and
smaller units.
Ken
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Angie Cope, AGSL wrote:
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> Subject: Re: MAPS-L: TOWN division visual guide
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005
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> Nat, et. al.,
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> To see these townships laid out neatly, just take a look at an older Rand
> McNally Commercial Atlas and Marketing Guide, say from the 1940s or so,
> especially if your research is genealogical or historical in nature. The
> maps are quite clear. Township names are sans serif I believe, and
> diagonal? [maybe not] on the page. Anyway, take a look. County outlines
> tend to be fairly clear, bolder than anything else, and the maps are
> relatively clean, as they only have rrs, no roads. More recent CA&M
> atlases have reduced scale and "different" cartography, so not so useful
> for several reasons, but especially for townships, many of which have been
> demapped or dissolved politically in recent years.
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