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The cartography of the United States is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the United States. Maps of the New World had been produced since the 19th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the
125 Years of Topographic Mapping
* Maps of the United States {{Cartography-stub
The cartography of the United States is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the United States. Maps of the New World had been produced since the 19th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the thirteen original colonies
The Thirteen Colonies, also known as the Thirteen British Colonies, the Thirteen American Colonies, or later as the United Colonies, were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America. Founded in the 17th and 18th centur ...
on July 4, 1776
Independence Day (colloquially the Fourth of July) is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the Declaration of Independence, which was ratified by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States ...
, during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783) celebrating victory. Later, Samuel Augustus Mitchell published a map of the United States in 1850. The ''National Program for Topographic Mapping'' was initiated in 2001 by the United States Geological Survey.
See also
* Geography of the United States * Territorial evolution of the United States * United States National Grid * United States territorial acquisitions * Cartography of New York CityReferences
Further reading
* S. Max Edelson, ''The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America Before Independence.'' Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2017 * Susan Schulten, ''Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America.'' Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 2011External links
*125 Years of Topographic Mapping
* Maps of the United States {{Cartography-stub