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Title: Fulton, Fayette, and Clayton Counties, Georgia, 1864 (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2013-10
  • Coverage: 1864

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Parts of Fulton, Fayette, Clayton, and Campbell counties, Georgia, from surveys and information at Top. Eng. Office, Dept. Cumb., before Atlanta, Ga. August 23rd 1864. It was published by Dept. of the Cumberland, Topographical Engineers in 1864. Scale [ca. 1:60,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Georgia West State Plane NAD 1983 coordinate system (Fipszone 1002) coordinate system. 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 drainage, cities and other human settlements, roads, railroads, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also principal roads colored red by hand, names of selected landowners, and manuscript annotations.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Subjects

  • Transportation
  • Georgia
  • Fulton County
  • Fayette County
  • Clayton County
  • Maps
  • Human settlements
  • Cities and towns
  • Villages
  • Landforms
  • Bodies of water
  • Landowners
  • Real property
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • planningCadastre
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-84.703981, -84.329818, 33.853553, 33.415306)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-84.703981, -84.329818, 33.853553, 33.415306)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, United States. Army. Department of the Cumberland. Topographical Engineers. Fulton, Fayette, and Clayton Counties, Georgia, 1864 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g3923-f8-1864-u63

Format

GeoTIFF