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Land use, land cover, and associated maps are printed at 1:250,000 scale (1:100,000 scale in some areas). They cover categories including: built-up land, agricultural land, range land, forest land, water, wetland, barren land, tundra and snow or ice. Standard base map features include boundaries, cities, and towns, railroads, roads and highways, rivers and lakes, but no contours.

National Atlas maps are printed at scales of 1:7.5 million to 1:34 million and portray geographic patterns of significant physical, economic, sociocultural, administrative and historical characterists of the United States. (This series includes a set of 1:2million-scale sectional reference maps.) Many National Atlas map separate sheets are available including: tectonic features; potential natural vegetation; population distribution (urban and rural); major forest types; minimum and maximum temperature maps; territorial growth; annual sunshine, evaporation and solar radiation, and others.

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National Atlas Maps

Its worth a quick trip to the library just to leaf through all 335 pages of this book. Rapid scanning of its thematic maps yields rich insights to the geography of issues of continuing nationalinterest. On most maps, the geographic patterns are still valid, though the data are not current.

The atlas is out of print, but many of its maps can be purchased separately. Maps that span facing pages in the atlas are printed on one sheet. The maps dated after 1970 are either revisions of original atlas maps, or new maps published in atlas format. The titles of the separate maps are listed here. National Atlas maps are available in paper form.

Thematic maps of the United States

Sheet size is 28 by 19 inches. Most of the maps have a scale of 1:7,500,000, but a few have scales that range between 1:17,000,000 and 1:34,000,000. Most of the maps include thematic data on the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii.

• Relief and physiography
  • United States Shaded Relief (1969)
  • Alaska Shaded Relief (1969)
  • Physiography and Physiographic Divisions(1968)
  • Land-Surface Form[Alaska](1968)
  • Classes of Land-Surface Form (1964)
  • U.S. Satellite View (1990)

• Geology
  • Geology(1966)
  • Surficial Geology(1979)
  • Tectonic Features(1967)
  • Tectonic Features[Alaska](1968)
  • Engineering Aspects of Karst(1984)

• Coastal environment
  • Coastal Erosion and Accretion (1985)
  • Coastal Hazards(1985)

• Climate
  • Monthly Sunshine (1965)
  • Annual Sunshine, Evaporation, and Solar Radiation (1969)
  • Monthly Average Temperature (1965)
  • Monthly Minimum Temperature (1965)
  • Monthly Maximum Temperature (1965)

• Hydrology
  • Surface Water(1965)(1988)

• Soils and vegatation
  • Soils (1985)
  • Potential Natural Vegetation(1985)
  • Major Forest Types (1987, revisions to Alaska only)

• Ecology
  • Principal Federal Lands Where Exploration and Development of Mineral Resources are Restricted (1981)
  • National Wilderness Preservation System (1987)(Sheet size 42 by 28 inches; scale 1:5,000,000)
  • Networks of Ecological Research Areas (1983)

• Transportation
  • Highways (1987)

• Population
  • Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas, and Linguistic Stocks (1967)
  • Population Distribution, Urban and Rural:1960
  • Population Distribution, Urban and Rural:1970
  • Population (1970)

• Political history and administration
  • Territorial Growth (1986)
  • Federal Lands(1968)
  • Counties (1987)
  • Congressional Districts for the 100th Congress (1987)
  • Presidential Elections, 1789-1968/1972-1984
  • Electing the President, 1789-1988 (map booklet)
  • Presidential Election of 1988 (1989)

This series of 19 thematic maps was prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey and originally published as part of a report by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, U.S. Senate.

The transportation data were provided by the Congessional Research Service, Library of Congress.

The maps are in National Atlas thematic map format.

• Natural Gas Movement by Pipeline (1974)
• Coal Movement by Railroads (1974)
• Coal Movement by Highways(1974)
• Coal Movement by Water(1974)
• Total Coal Movement (1974)
• Coal Resources and Distribution(1974)
• Crude Oil Movement by Pipelines(1974)
• Crude Oil Movement by Water (1974)
• Petroleum Products Movement by Pipelines (1974)
• Petroleum Products Movement by Water(1974)
• Total Crude Oil Movement (1974)
• Total Petroleum Products Movement (1974)
• Total Petroleum Movement (1974)
• Electric Power Transmission (1974)
• Nuclear Fuel Materials Movement by Highways (Truckloads)(1975)
• Nuclear Fuel Materials Movement by Highways (BTU)(1975)
• Pipeline Transportation Systems (1974)
• Railroad, Highway, and Water Transportation systems (1974)
• Total Interstate Energy Movement (1974)

U.S. General Reference 1973

This 28-by 19-inch map shows -

• Names of populated places and railroads in black
• Areas of cities with populations of more than 1 million in yellow.
• State boundaries and names highlighted in gray
• Highways and ferry routes in red
• Water features in blue
• Names of physical features and shaded relief base in brown
• The conterminous 48 States and Hawaii at a scale of 1:7,500,000 (one inch represents 118.4 miles)
• alaska at a scale of 1:17,000,000 (one inch represents 268.3 miles)

  Also available are transparent plastic overlays at various scales to permit overlaying reference information on thematic maps.

A series of multicolor planimetric(no contours) maps (also available singly) shows the United States in 21 sections at a scale of 1:2,000,000 (1 inch represents 31.5 miles). Content is similar to that of the U.S. General Reference without shaded relief, but is portrayed in greater detail; national park and forest land, wildlife refuges, and Indian reservations are also shown.

Except for Alaska, California, Montana, and Texas, the sectional Maps have been designed so that each State is shown in its entirety on one sheet>

Each map is printed on one side of a 28- by 19 inch sheet.

• Northeastern States (1972)
  Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, NewYork, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island
• Middle Atlantic States (1972)
  Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio
• Southeastern States(1972)(1972)
  North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
• Florida(1972)
• Southern Mississippi Valley States(1982)
  Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee
• Central Mississippi Valley States(1972)
  Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky
• Northern Great Lakes States(1972)
  Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota
• Northern Plains States(1972)
  North Dakota, South Dakota, Eastern Montana, Wyoming
• Central Plains States(1973)
  Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas
• Sourthern Plains States(1973)
  Oklahoma, Northern Texas
• Southern Texas(1973)
• Arizona and New Mexico(1973)
• Southern California(1973)
• Central Pacific States(1972)
  Northern California, Nevada, Utah
• Northwestern States(1973)
  Western Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington
• Hawaiian Islands(1972)
• Southeastern Alaska(1972)
• Central Alaska(1972)
• Northern Alaska(1973)
• Southwestern Alaska(1973)
• Central Alaska(1972)
• Northern Alaska(1973)
• Southwesten Alaska(1973)
• Aleutian Islans(1973)

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