Inventory of Historic Maps of Mississippi,
created 2007-2017,
by Paul Davis

Title:Mobile entrance and eastern part of Mississippi Sound, Alabama U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Sept., 1896.
Author:U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Scale:ca 1 inch to 1.26 miles
Situation Date:1894, September
Publication Date:1896
Type:Photocopy
Features:Drainage, islands, bays, oyster beds, Gulf and river soundings (depths), type and condition of bottom, buoys, lighthouses, beacons, dredged channel, U.S. Military Hospital, shipyard, short railroad in Scranton area.
Comments:Title Note: "no. 189" above title.
Features Note: Tidal chart showing average time of day at two places and heights at three places. Annotated with red pencil to show extension of Mississippi state boundary south, below Petit Bois Island and west border of map south of Pascagoula. Contains a chart indicating information about the height, type, location, color and visibility of lighthouses.
Coverage:Jackson County
Repository:Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Language:English
Publisher:Washington, D.C. : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1896 .
Size (inches):41 X 37
Color:Y
Link:http://zed.mdah.state.ms.us/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bibl ionumber=72503