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Title
California. Escondido quadrangle (15'), 1942
Creator
29th Engineers, U.S. Army, topographer
Contributor
29th Engineers, U.S. Army, surveyor
U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, surveyor
U.S. Geological Survey, surveyor
Date Created and/or Issued
1935
1938
1939
1942
Publication Information
Engineer Reproduction Plant, U.S. Army
Portland, Oregon
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
Historical California Topographical Maps
Rights Information
Los Angeles Public Library
Public domain. Issued under the Creative Commons license Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Send requests to address or e-mail given.
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Description
Prepared under the direction of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1942. Horizontal control by 29th Engineers, U.S. Army, 1940, and U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1939. Vertical control by 29th Engineers, U.S. Army, 1940, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1935, and U.S. Geological Survey, 1938. Topography by 29th Engineers, U.S. Army, 1942, from Tandem T-3A (5 lens) aerial photographs, by stereo-comparagraph methods, Intermediate elevations by multiplex aero-projectors. Photography by 91st Observation Squadron, Air Corps, U.S. Army, 1939. Polyconic Projection, North American 1927 Datum. Contour interval 40 feet. [Vertical] datum is mean sea level (1929 Adj.)
Type
image
Format
Scale: 1:62,500. Map type: TF. Polyconic projection
Horizontal datum: North American 1927 datum
Grid note: 5,000 yard grid compute drom "Grid System for Progressive Maps in the U.S." Zone G. U.S.C.and G.S. Special Publication No. 59
10,000 foot plane coordinates computed from U.S.C. and G.S. Projection Tables for California VI…
Vertical datum: mean sea level (1929 Adj.)
Contour interval on land and off shore 50 feet.
image/tiff
topographic maps
maps
contour maps
relief maps
quadrangle maps
Identifier
USGS-15-CA-escondido-e1943-s1935.tiff
http://doi.org/10.25549/caltopo-c97-887
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/USGS-15-CA-escondido-e1943-s1935.jpg
Language
English
Subject
Excondido
San Diego County
California
Western United States
U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
Topographic
15 minute
1:62,500 scale
Polyconic
Time Period
1935-1939
Place
33.00000,-117.00000
33.25000,-117.00000
33.25000,-117.25000
33.00000,-117.25000
California
Escondido
USA
Source
USC-2004-000C4F-1 [USCID]; 15CA-escondido-e43s35 [Identifying number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation
California 15-Minute Maps
Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, 15 minute series
Historical California Topographical Maps, 1894-1968
USGS National Center (Reston, Virginia) does not own a copy of this map

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