Tuesday, October 27, 2009

 

Ridges of Leavenworth County

125th Anniversary of the USGS Topographic Mapping Program

In a bold, visionary statement to Congress on December 5, 1884, USGS Director, John Wesley Powell announced, “A Government cannot do any scientific work of more value to the people at large than by causing the construction of proper topographic maps of the country.”




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