{"id":2476,"date":"2020-08-21T17:43:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T17:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/?page_id=2476"},"modified":"2025-10-02T20:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:20:45","slug":"topographic-maps-online","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/collections\/maps-new\/maps-topographic-maps-new\/topographic-maps-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Topographic Maps &#8212; Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"nav nav-tabs\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/collections\/maps-new\/maps-topographic-maps-new\/usgs-topographic-maps-new\/\/\">USGS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/collections\/maps-new\/maps-topographic-maps-new\/topographic-maps-books-and-indexes\/\">Books\/Indexes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/collections\/maps-new\/maps-topographic-maps-new\/topographic-maps-interpretation\/\/\">Interpretation\/Use<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"active\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/collections\/maps-new\/maps-topographic-maps-new\/topographic-maps-online\/\">Online<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/topoexplorer\/index.html\">USGS Historical Map Explorer<\/a><br \/>\nSearch using a graphical map interface for all historic topographic maps that covered selected location; free download of scanned maps<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ngmdb.usgs.gov\/topoview\/\">TopoView<\/a><br \/>\nSearch using map interface, by place name or quadrangle name; includes all topographic maps from 1884 to the present with free download in multiple formats<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.usgs.gov\/map-locator\">USGS Store Map Locator<\/a><br \/>\nAnother way to look for USGS topographic maps; download options not as flexible as TopoView<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digital.library.illinois.edu\/collections\/810d3fa0-e3fb-012f-c5b6-0019b9e633c5-a\">Historical Maps Online<\/a><br \/>\nUIUC Library scanned map collection includes earliest edition of many 1:62,500-scale Illinois topographic maps<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digital topographic mapping created by most nations is available only by purchase.<\/strong> Some US-produced topographic maps for other nations has been scanned and is available freely online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lib.byu.edu\/collections\/german-maps\/\">Germany Topographische Karte 1:25,000<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable from Brigham Young University. Includes links to Internet Archives scan of gazetteer volumes. Search by sheet number; zoom, pan, and download.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USGS Books\/Indexes Interpretation\/Use Online &nbsp; USGS Historical Map Explorer Search using a graphical map interface for all historic topographic maps that covered selected location; free download of scanned maps TopoView Search using map interface, by place name or quadrangle name; includes all topographic maps from 1884 to the present with free download in multiple formats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"parent":1555,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2476","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4059,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2476\/revisions\/4059"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/max\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}