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From: "Trev" <>
Subject: [ILHAMILT-L] GREAT LOCAL PLAT MAPs
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 23:05:22 -0600

Great plat map. Even shows the cemetery's.....gives you a great view of the
terrain. They went in with the USGS and made these maps better. Here's how I
found it, and the link is here......(I think I found Darnell Canyon in section
16 of Flannigan Twp.)....
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At <http://www.topozone.com/>; there are exceptionally good color
topographical maps of the United States [Alaska and Puerto Rico
are coming soon] at scales of 1:200000, 1:100000, 1:50000 and
1:25000. These not only show topographical features and towns,
roads, etc., but also the township-range numbers and section
numbers as well as the political township names. At 1:25000, you
can see individual houses, and finding "the northeast quarter of
the southeast quarter of section 23 of township 40 north, range
5 east" becomes trivial. Even the people in "metes and bounds"
states ["Beginning at a white oak . . ."] should be able to get
a pretty good idea of where their ancestors' land was. . . You
want to find the general area you need at 1:200000, then center
it (by clicking on the map), go to 1:100000 (it will keep the
same center), then do that again at 1:50000 and 1:25000. This
is a great resource.
John W. Pierce, R2 Systems, San Diego <>

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