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  2. United States Geological Survey - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.usgs.gov. The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The agency was founded on March 3, 1879, to study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and ...

  3. Profit Island - Wikipedia

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    USGS quadrangle for Walls, Louisiana 1954 Plantations and river landings of Baton Rouge Parishes of Louisiana c. 1884. Profit Island, originally known as Islands No. 123 and 124, then Prophet Island, [1] and also known as Browns Island and Isle de Iberville, is a 2,300-acre (930 ha) island of the Mississippi River in North America. [2]

  4. Quadrangle (geography) - Wikipedia

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    A quadrangle is defined by north and south boundaries of constant latitude (which are not great circles so are curved), and by east and west boundaries of constant longitude. From approximately 1947–1992, the USGS produced the 7.5 minute series, with each map covering an area one-quarter of the older 15-minute quad series, which it replaced. [1]

  5. Libre Map Project - Wikipedia

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    The Libre Map Project was started by Jared Benedict and around 100 additional individuals contributing money to purchase (or "liberate") a full set of 1:24K scale USGS topographic maps in Digital raster graphic form. [1] The map files were then hosted by archive.org to ensure the map data will continue to be freely available to everyone ...

  6. List of GIS data sources - Wikipedia

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    Online collection of all digital USGS 1:24K scale topographic maps (as well as various other GIS data) covering the United States, available as a free download. NPScape United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NPScape is a landscape dynamics monitoring project that provides landscape-level data, tools, and evaluations for ...

  7. Duckport, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Duckport was right near Paw Paw Island, which was sometimes called My Wife's Island [1] Reconstruction-era map showing Duckport plantation Location of Duckport, Louisiana, 1869 Duckport and Duckport Landing visible in 1909 Milliken's Bend quadrangle map (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection)

  8. The National Map - Wikipedia

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    The National Map is a collaborative effort of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and other federal, state, and local agencies to improve and deliver topographic information for the United States. [1] The purpose of the effort is to provide "...a seamless, continuously maintained set of public domain geographic base information that will ...

  9. United States Geological Survey Library - Wikipedia

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    The USGS headquarters in Reston, VA. Today, the United States Geological Survey Library's users have access to over 1.7 million items: over 980,000 books and journals, over 600,000 maps, over 8,000 electronic media items (DVDs, CDs), and subscribes to over 113,000 electronic journal titles and eBooks.