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Subject:        Re: Aerial maps of US from 1940s
Date:   Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:12:56 -0600
From:   Mike Flannigan <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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That is some tough land to farm.
http://terraserverusa.com/map.aspx?t=2&s=12&lon=-84.52500&lat=36.99722&opt=1

I suspect they farmed down in Jugornot Hollow.


Mike Flannigan


On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, [log in to unmask] wrote:

>I am an attorney in addition of being a lover of maps. I am wearing my
>attorney hat as I write this. I have a case involving the rights of
>various adjoining land owners in a tract of property located in the Buck
>Creek section of Pulaski County, Kentucky. An important element of the
>case involves how much of the land was being farmed in the 1940s. A
>couple of months ago, I read in these post that during WWII, the Army
>made aerial maps of the entire United States. The earliest aerial
>photographs I have been able to find so far were taken in the 1950s. I
>very much need to find a source for these old Army aerial maps. The area
>I need is located in south eastern Pulaski County, Kentucky, and would
>be on the Dykes or Hail USGS maps or at about 36 degrees, 59 min 50 sec,
>84 degrees, 31 minutes, 30 seconds. There was an old Kentucky court of
>appeals opinion from the 1940s that decided the boundary issue on this
>land but unfortunately, the case referred to the "land currently being
>farmed" and referenced a map. The map is no longer in the file so the
>only way to determine the boundary is to look at old aerial maps to try
>to determine the location of the land being cultivated at the time the
>aerial photographs were made. Any help with this problem or referrals
>would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Bruce Orwin