Map of Salisbury Area, Connecticut
After a work byAfter a work by
United States Geological Survey
(American, founded 1879)
SurveyorGeology, ground-water conditions and forest boundaries by
Arthur J. Ellis
(American, died 1921)
PrinterPrinted by
A. Hoen & Company
(American, founded 1848)
PublisherPublished by
United States Geological Survey
(American, founded 1879)
Date1915
MediumLithography; black and colored printer's inks on wove paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 10 1/4 x 15in. (26 x 38.1cm)
Sheet (height x width): 13 x 18 3/8in. (33 x 46.7cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
Object number2004.157.3
DescriptionMap of Stamford and Greenwich, Connecticut, and the surrounding area, from the border of Massachusetts to the north, Norfolk to the east, and the border of New York to the west. Colors, lines and symbols are used to denote stratified drift, rock outcroppings, elevation, woods, ground water, dug or driven wells, drilled wells, and springs. There are numbers next to the wells and springs that correspond to numbers used in tables (not provided). Blue is used to denote water, including rivers, reservoirs, lakes and ponds. Local roads are depicted, with black squares probably representing buildings. The Central New England Railroad and the Berkshire Division of the Housatonic Railroad run through the area.
Label TextContour intervals are a convenient and accurate way of depicting terrain. On this 1915 map of the Salisbury area, the contour interval is twenty feet. This means that the lines showing elevation are twenty vertical feet apart. Where the lines are very close together the terrain is be very steep, and where the lines are far apart, the slope is more gradual. The contour intervals on this map clearly convey the rugged nature of the terrain in northwestern Connecticut. The map also provides a great deal of information about the nature of the soil and rocks and the presence (or absence) of forest. Quite a lot of forest is shown on this map. In contrast to a similar map of the Stamford area, which shows forested areas chiefly in the river valleys, this map shows the forested areas around Salisbury located chiefly on steep and rocky hilltops.
NotesCartographic Note: Scale: 1:62,500Status
Not on view
