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Title: Transportation System (Including Proposed), MAPC, Massachusetts, 1976 (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2014-03
  • Coverage: 1976

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Regional report : 1976 existing & proposed transportation network / Metropolitan Area Planning Council ; drawn by J. Gray and R. Hundt, CTPS. It was published by Metropolitan Area Planning Council in 1976. Scale [ca. 1:96,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). 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 other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes also transportation legend, airports, watershed names, and harbor features. 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
  • Massachusetts
  • Salibury
  • Amesbury
  • Merrimac
  • Newburyport
  • West Newbury
  • Newbury
  • Haverhill
  • Groveland
  • Georgetown
  • Rowley
  • Methuen
  • Lawrence
  • North Andover
  • Boxford
  • Ipswich
  • Rockport
  • Gloucester
  • Essex
  • Hamilton
  • Wenham
  • Topsfield
  • Andover
  • Wilmington
  • North Reading
  • Middleton
  • Danvers
  • Beverly
  • Machester-by-the-Sea
  • Salem
  • Peabody
  • Marblehead
  • Lynnfield
  • Wakefield
  • Reading
  • Burlington
  • Woburn
  • Stonehall
  • Winchester
  • Melrose
  • Saugus
  • Lynn
  • Swampscott
  • Nahant
  • Revere
  • Boston
  • Winthrop
  • Chelsea
  • Everett
  • Malden
  • Medford
  • Arlington
  • Belmont
  • Somerville
  • Cambridge
  • Newton
  • Brookline
  • Needham
  • Dedham
  • Milton
  • Quincy
  • Hull
  • Cohasset
  • Hingham
  • Scituate
  • Weymouth
  • Braintree
  • Randolph
  • Canton
  • Norwood
  • Westwood
  • Walpole
  • Sharon
  • Stoughton
  • Avon
  • Holbrook
  • Abington
  • Rockland
  • Hanover
  • Norwell
  • Marshfield
  • Pembroke
  • Duxburg
  • Kingston
  • Plympton
  • Halifax
  • Bridgewater
  • East Bridgewater
  • West Bridgewater
  • Brockton
  • Easton
  • Mansfield
  • Foxborough
  • Norton
  • Taunton
  • Raynham
  • Middleborough
  • Carver
  • Plymouth
  • Lakeville
  • Berkeley
  • Dighton
  • Swansea
  • Freetown
  • Rochester
  • Wareham
  • Rehoboth
  • Seekonk
  • Attleboro
  • North Attleborough
  • Plainville
  • Wrentham
  • Norfolk
  • Franklin
  • Medfield
  • Millis
  • Sherborn
  • Natick
  • Wellesley
  • Framingham
  • Ashland
  • Holliston
  • Medway
  • Billingham
  • Blackstone
  • Millville
  • Uxbridge
  • Douglas
  • Sutton
  • Northbridge
  • Upton
  • Grafton
  • Shrewsbury
  • Northborough
  • Westborough
  • Hopkinton
  • Southborough
  • Townsend
  • Lunenburg
  • Leominster
  • Sterling
  • Bolyston
  • Lancaster
  • Clinton
  • Shirley
  • Berlin
  • Bolton
  • Harvard
  • Groton
  • Pepperell
  • Arer
  • Hudson
  • Marlborough
  • Stow
  • Maynard
  • Sudbury
  • Wayland
  • Weston
  • Lincoln
  • Lexington
  • Concord
  • Bedford
  • Billerica
  • Chelmsford
  • Westford
  • Littleton
  • Dunstable
  • Lowell
  • Dracut
  • Tewksbury
  • Tyngsborough
  • Maps
  • Human settlements
  • Cities and towns
  • Villages
  • Landforms
  • Bodies of water
  • Land use
  • Infrastructure (Economics)
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-71.832872, -70.507509, 42.930159, 41.744983)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-71.832872, -70.507509, 42.930159, 41.744983)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library, Metropolitan Area Planning Council (Boston, Mass.), Gray, J., Hundt, R. Transportation System (Including Proposed), MAPC, Massachusetts, 1976 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g3764-b6p1-1976-m41

Format

GeoTIFF