Inventory of Historic Maps of Mississippi,
created 2007-2017,
by Paul Davis
Title: | Sketch H. showing the progress of the survey in section no. VIII, from 1846 to 1862. Bowen & Co., lith., Philada. |
Author: | United States Coast Survey. |
Scale: | ca 1 inch to 9.5 miles |
Situation Date: | 1862 |
Publication Date: | 1862 |
Type: | Original |
Features: | Drainage at coast line, islands- named including many small ones, bays, points-named, towns, communities, piers, saw mills, hospital, forts, cotton gin, light houses, ship yard, apparent names of some residents numerous survey triangulation networks with various numeric designations. |
Comments: | Title Note: At head of title: U.S. Coast Survey. A. D. Bache, Superindent.
"No. 35" in the upper left corner. Features Note: Insets: Plan of Fort Jackson, showing the effect of the bombardment by the U. S. mortar flotilla and gunboats, April 18th to 24th 1862. 27 x 41 cm.--Reconnoissance [sic] of the Mississippi River below Forts Jackson and St. Philip made previous to the reduction by the U. S. Fleet under the command of flag officer D. G. Farragut, U.S.N. 23 x 42 cm. Publication Note: From its Report of the Superindent of the Coast Survey, showing the progress of the survey during the year 1862. (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1864). Map 35. |
Coverage: | Mobile Bay to the Mississippi River outflow, delta |
Repository: | Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | [Washington, U.S. Coast Survey] 1862. |
Size (inches): | 19.6 X 33.4 |
Link: | http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3862c.cw0035500 |