USGS
Education Map
Catalog
The
USGS publishes over 76,000 different maps in a wide variety of scales
and themes.
Click on any of the 12 themes or
images below to browse a sample of USGS maps of that theme.
Topography
Maps
showing canyons, plains, mountains, and
other features resulting from erosion, deposition, mountain building,
glaciation, river, and other processes. Often show rivers, roads, railroads, towns, land ownership, and
other features.
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Geology
Maps
showing surface or underlying rock type, their structure,
and their origin. May
also show minerals, mining areas, and features such as fault lines, plate boundaries,
rivers, and topography.
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Image
Maps
showing
physical and cultural features on the land using natural color, black
and white, color infrared, radar, and other types of images from satellites and
aircraft.
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Culture
and History
Maps
showing Native American Cultural Regions, physical and cultural landscape on historical editions of USGS
topographic maps, the growth of the United States, historical trails and
explorers, and other themes.
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National
Parks and Monuments
Maps
showing topographic and thematic maps of selected National Parks. |
International
and World
Maps of the world, regions, and
countries outside of the USA. |
Water
Resources
Maps showing
watersheds, floods, water quality, coastal features,
aquifers, and other water-related issues and features. |
Planetary
Maps showing geology,
shaded relief, and other themes in the solar system. |
Environmental
Maps
showing environmental themes and ecoregions. |
Land
Status and Land Cover
Maps
showing
the land status, land use, and land cover of the USA and selected areas
of the world. |
Energy
and Physics
Maps
showing
the distribution and assessment of geothermal, oil, gas, coal,
hydroelectric, other
energy sources, geomagnetism, and the Earth's gravity. |
Earthquakes,
Volcanoes, and Landslides
Maps
showing
the distribution of earthquake epicenters, volcanoes, and landslides across the USA and around the
world. |
To
order USGS maps or other products, contact:
Your
authorized USGS Business Partner. A listing of these is available
on:
http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/acis-bin/querypartner.cgi
Order
online: http://store.usgs.gov
or
email: ask@usgs.gov
or
visit: http://ask.usgs.gov
or
call 1-888-ASK-USGS
or
write: US Geological Survey, Map Distribution, Denver Federal
Center, Box 25286,
Denver,
Colorado 80225-0286 USA
Or
access the order form: http://mac.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/forms/usgsbooks.pdf
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Last modified: 6 January 2004
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