Free USGS Topo Maps

[Au-N-Rod]

While getting 6 inches of rain today at the house, I came across this map site. It is just about every USGS map that has been made. And you can download for free. Played for hours.


The USGS Store - One stop shop for all your maps, world, United States, state, wall decor, historic, planetary, topographic, trail, hiking, foreign, satellite, digital


It is really interesting the differences in topo maps from 30 or so years apart.


Rodney

 

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[roadrunner]

Thanks for posting, a lot of us use that also.

 

[goldenIrishman]

Welcome to the asylum Au-N-Rod.

I'm old friends with the USGS site. I've downloaded a few gig worth of maps just for the County I live and mine in. Remember to check out some of the old maps too! through the years they've changed some of the features shown. Older maps may show mine locations that the new ones don't. I've also grabbed some of the 1:100,000 scale maps for over views of larger areas.

Because they're in PDF format, you can go into them and make notes, highlight areas and customize them in a lot of different ways. Just save them under a different name so you've always got a "clean copy". Usually I use the map name followed by MU for mark up.

 

[russau]

a few years back I had over 400 USGS topo maps from all over the USA. I kept the ones from my home state and offered the rest of them to clubs in the other states for FREE and couldn't find anyone that wanted them! they hit the trash!

 

[goldenIrishman]

OUCH! I hate seeing good maps go to waste!

 

[bedrock bubba]

I love shaded relief topo maps! Does that site offer them?

 

[CApicker]

I love Caltopo. CalTopo - Backcountry Mapping Evolved
Get in there and start adding layers and use the slider to go blend layers...
Here is an example of Folsom Lake where 1 map layer is a current satellite image, the other is a map from 1915-1945 and a blended image of both together.

 

[russau]

what I liked about my maps that are gone now was all the writing / notations marked on the side of the topos. OHWELL!