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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 19:24:42 -0400
From: "Mark A. Thomas" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: map index <fwd>
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> Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 14:43:31 -0400
> From: Paul Poston <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: map index
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> We have a large collection of USGS topological maps in
> 1:31680, 1:62,500 and 1:12500 scales. However we do not have
> an index to enable access. Does anyone know of an index for
> these scales either on line or in print.

Ed,

Two classic books published by WAML are the following:

100 1  $a Moffat, Riley Moore
245 10 $a Map index to topographic quadrangles of the United States,
1882-1940 / $c by Riley Moore Moffat ; foreword by Mary Larsgaard.
260    $a Santa Cruz, CA : $b Western Association of Map Libraries, $c
1985, c1986.
300    $a xv, 1 v. (various pagings) : $b ill., col. maps ; $c 21 x 28
cm.
440  0 $a Occasional paper (Western Association of Map Libraries) ; $v
no. 10

100 1  $a Stark, Peter L.
245 12 $a A cartobibliography of separately published U.S. Geological
Survey special maps and river surveys / $c by Peter L. Stark ; foreword
by Riley Moore Moffat.
260    $a Santa Cruz, Calif. : $b Western Association of Map Libraries,
$c 1989.
300    $a xxii, 336 p. : $b ill. ; $c 29 cm.
440  0 $a Occasional paper (Western Association of Map Libraries) ; $v
no. 12

These are both still listed at the WAML web site:
http://www.waml.org/wmlpubs.html#OPs

The Moffat book covers 15'(1:62,500), 30' (1:125,000) and 60'(1:250,000)
quads through 1940.  The Stark book covers lots of early maps that
aren't on that standard grid or have odd scales.

I don't' believe either of these covers the 1:31,680 sheets, but those
are 7.5' maps that cover exactly the same areas as the modern 7.5'
sheets (but at a smaller scale and on a smaller piece of paper).  The
names are probably often different, but sometimes the same (e.g.,
Ansonia, CT is the same).  This is also true with the old DMA 1:25,000
series: same grid pattern as USGS 1:24,000, with names sometimes same
and sometimes different.

Sometimes people have kept old folded UGSS indexes from before the 1980s
that show the earlier smaller scale quads before they were discontinued,
but, if so, they might be pretty cherished.

--Mark
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