File:Wheeler Sketch Indicating the Advancement of the Surveys of Public Lands 1879 UTA.jpg
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English: Sketch Indicating the Advancement of the Surveys of the Public Lands and the Military, Topographical and Geographical Surveys West of the Mississippi |
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DescriptionWheeler Sketch Indicating the Advancement of the Surveys of Public Lands 1879 UTA.jpg |
English: This chromolithograph represents an attempt at a cartographic summary of systematic mapping activities in the American West up to the time of the creation of the U.S. Geological Survey in 1879. The map was prepared under the direction of the U.S. Army's George M. Wheeler, who himself had directed one of the great projects himself – the "Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian". His was a military-sponsored effort to create a large-scale official topographic map of the area in hundreds of individual sheets based upon systematic surveys. Ninety-five grids west of the meridian forming the eastern border of the Texas panhandle represent Wheeler's proposed, but only partially complete, survey. The red grid of six-mile-square townships represents the progress of the public land surveys of the General Land Office and therefore suggests the extent of real estate development at the time. The systematic Geological Surveys of the Fortieth Parallel under Clarence King are also noted, but the surveys of Hayden and Powell are not. In 1879 Congress voted to terminate funding for Wheeler's, Hayden's, and Powell's surveys, while King's work had been completed the year before. The termination of Wheeler's work was controversial since some insisted that, had it continued, it would have been quite adequate for the demands of its time. |
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Source | UTA Libraries Cartographic Connections: map / text | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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creator QS:P170,Q1507930 et al. |
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English: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections |
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Map location | United States of America | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of publication | Washington, D.C. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q1230739 |
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height: 84 cm (33 in); width: 114 cm (44.8 in) dimensions QS:P2048,84U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,114U174728 |
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chromolithograph medium QS:P186,Q1121337 |
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artwork-references |
Karrow, Jr., Robert "The Wheeler Survey: George Wheeler's Sketch" in Cohen , ed. Mapping the West, pp. 192−194 Karrow "George M. Wheeler and the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian 1869-1879" in Koepp , ed. Exploration and Mapping of the American West, pp. 120−157 Bartlett, Richard A. "Scientific Exploration of the American West, 1865-1900" in Allen , ed. North American Exploration, 3, pp. 509−513 Goetzmann Exploration and Empire, pp. 467−488 Conzen; Dillon Mapping Manifest Destiny, p. 66 |
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