-------- Original Message -------- 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]> CC: [log in to unmask] References: <[log in to unmask]> 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