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Your mountain. Your hometown. The sheet that drew it first.

The USGS has surveyed America quadrangle by quadrangle since 1879 — 178,000 historical sheets. The one with your town on it is in there. We find it and restore it.

Restored 1903 USGS topographic quadrangle of Nashville, TennesseeNashville, Tennessee — 1903

How it works

Type a town, a mountain, a quad name. The search below asks the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection live — every hit is a real sheet with its year. Pick the one that's yours and we restore the original scan at 300 dpi.

Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection (topoView). US Government work — public domain.

ASK THE USGS ARCHIVE, LIVE 178,000 historical sheets
REQUEST SLIPNº ___

We answer within a day with what the archive actually holds — real scans, real years. Nothing to pay until you've seen your map. $7 a quad, restored · $18 for any three.

Restored this week

Restored launch samples below — Nashville 1903, Yosemite 1897, Grand Canyon 1903.

Restored 1903 USGS topographic quadrangle of Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee — 19031:125,000 survey sheet, restored from the USGS scan
Restored 1897 USGS topographic quadrangle of Yosemite
Yosemite, California — 1897The valley as first surveyed — contours, rivers, granite
Restored 1903 USGS Bright Angel quadrangle of the Grand Canyon
Bright Angel, Grand Canyon — 19031:48,000 — the canyon drawn contour by contour

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