http://nationalmap.gov/historical/
Holy crap indeed, awesome find. There's lots of really neat stuff on here.
Wow, great find.
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Oh yeah, I've been rifling through there for a while now! I posted about this a while back, but I don't remember on what forum (might have been m.t.r.). But yes, by the way everyone, USGS is releasing all old historical editions for free online! :-) That might just make up for US Topo...
(Although, I've noticed that the lastest National Map online viewer shows a lot of the data that's lamentably omitted from US Topo, such as corporate limits and MCD boundaries. I've always considered those to be a hallmark of the USGS topo. If only we could get them to keep showing things like California ranchos and Hawaiian ahupua`a...)
This is awesome! Thanks for the link.
Florida is now up (at least in part).
It's been fun for me to see how editions have changed over the years...you can even tell things like which map is from the mid-60s because of the deep shade of green they used then, versus the more golden yellow-green hues of the 50s editions. I also never knew there was a 30x30-minute series, at 1:125k scale, around the turn of the century, or that the 1:250k series was published in some areas as folded maps.
You also find gems like the ex-Army Map Service editions of the 40s, showing every building in NYC for example, and the depression-era quads that were produced in collaboration with local governments and probably as some sort of WPA initiative.
In a word, fun for the map geek!
This calls for Homer's Patented Space-Age Out of This World Moon Waffles:
(https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQaYjduyom3gw_p7CVj91OgtqPbAmiCw_gAeW3c8F9dpJKoJaMt2g)
Great, so much for sleep tonight.
Cool find!
Very nice find.
I'm finding so many railroad beds in old maps that I've never seen/heard. Time to explore...
I can see the US-395 older alignment on "Poway Valley" topo map in 1942 as Poway was like almost empty town back then in near World War 2 era. US-395 is now I-15 as further west. I-15 is extremely large freeway as more than 12 lanes with 4 lanes express lanes.