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Title: New York, N.Y. and vicinity, 1899 (Raster Image)

• Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
• Geological Survey (U.S.)
• Wilson, Herbert M. (Herbert Michael), 1860-1920.
• U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Dates

• Issued: 2007-11
• Coverage: 1899

Publishers

• Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: New York City and vicinity, H.M. Wilson, geographer in charge ; triangulation by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ; topography by S.H. Bodfish ... [et al. and] U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, N.Y. City Government and the Geological Survey of New Jersey. It was published by U.S.G.S. in 1899. Scale 1:62,500. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 18N NAD83 projection. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, cities and towns, villages, forts, cemeteries, aqueducts, boundaries, and more. Relief is shown with standard contour intervals of 20 feet. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

Subjects

• Transportation
• New York, New York
• New York
• Atlantic Beach
• Baxter Estates
• Bellerose
• Bronx
• Bronxville
• Brooklyn
• Cedarhurst
• Dobbs Ferry
• East Rockaway
• Eastchester
• Floral Park
• Flower Hill
• Garden City
• Great Neck
• Great Neck Estates
• Great Neck Plaza
• Greenburgh
• Harrison
• Hastings-on-Hudson
• Hempstead
• Hewlett Bay Park
• Hewlett Harbor
• Hewlett Neck
• Kensington
• Kings County
• Kings Point
• Lake Success
• Larchmont
• Lawrence
• Long Beach
• Lynbrook
• Malverne
• Mamaroneck
• Manhattan
• Mount Vernon
• Munsey Park
• North Hempstead
• New Hyde Park
• New Rochelle
• North Hills
• Orangetown
• Pelham
• Pelham Manor
• Plandome
• Plandome Heights
• Plandome Manor
• Port Chester
• Port Washington North
• Queens
• Richmond County
• Roslyn Estates
• Russell Gardens
• Rye
• Rye Brook
• Saddle Rock
• Sands Point
• Scarsdale
• South Floral Park
• Staten Island
• Stewart Manor
• Thomaston
• Tuckahoe
• Valley Stream
• White Plains
• Woodsburgh
• Yonkers
• New Jersey
• Aberdeen
• Alpine
• Atlantic Highlands
• Bayonne
• Belleville
• Bergenfield
• Bloomfield
• Bogota
• Carlstadt
• Carteret
• Cedar Grove
• Cliffside Park
• Clifton
• Closter
• Cresskill
• Demarest
• Dumont
• East Newark
• East Orange
• East Rutherford
• Edgewater
• Elizabeth
• Elmwood Park
• Emerson
• Englewood
• Englewood Cliffs
• Fair Haven
• Fair Lawn
• Fairview
• Fort Lee
• Franklin Lakes
• Garfield
• Gateway National Recreation Area
• Glen Ridge
• Glen Rock
• Guttenberg
• Hackensack
• Haledon
• Harrington Park
• Hasbrouck Heights
• Haworth
• Hawthorne
• Hazlet
• Highlands
• Hillsdale
• Hillside
• Hoboken
• Ho-Ho-Kus
• Holmdel
• Irvington
• Jersey City
• Keansburg
• Kearny
• Keyport
• Leonia
• Linden
• Little Falls
• Little Ferry
• Lodi
• Lyndhurst
• Maplewood
• Marlboro
• Matawan
• Maywood
• Middletown
• Midland Park
• Montclair
• Moonachie
• New Milford
• Newark
• North Arlington
• North Bergen
• North Caldwell
• North Haledon
• Northvale
• Norwood
• Nutley
• Oakland
• Old Bridge
• Old Tappan
• Oradell
• Orange
• Palisades Park
• Paramus
• Passaic
• Paterson
• Perth Amboy
• Prospect Park
• Ridgefield
• Ridgefield Park
• Ridgewood
• River Edge
• River Vale
• Rochelle Park
• Rockleigh
• Roselle
• Roselle Park
• Rumson
• Rutherford
• Saddle Brook
• Sayreville
• Sea Bright
• Secaucus
• South Hackensack
• South Orange Village
• Teaneck
• Tenafly
• Teterboro
• Totowa
• Union Beach
• Union City
• Union
• Verona
• Wallington
• Washington
• Wayne
• Weehawken
• West New York
• West Orange
• West Paterson
• Westwood
• Woodbridge
• Wood-Ridge
• Wyckoff
• Maps, Topographic
• Maps
• Human settlements
• Cities and towns
• Land use
• Landforms
• Infrastructure (Economics)
• Bodies of water
• Buildings
• imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
• Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-74.291065, -73.617833, 41.026888, 40.339434)
• Geometry: BBOX (-74.291065, -73.617833, 41.026888, 40.339434)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

• Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Geological Survey (U.S.), Wilson, Herbert M. (Herbert Michael), 1860-1920., U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. New York, N.Y. and vicinity, 1899 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g3804-n4-1899-g4

Format

GeoTIFF