Lab Two: USGS Topographic Maps

1. Beverly Hills Quadrangle

2. Canoga Park, Van Nuys, Burbank, Topanga, Hollywood, Venice, Inglewood

3. 1966

4. Horizontal datum: North American Datum of 1927 (NAD 27) and North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83)
Vertical datum: National Geodetic Datum of 1929

5. Scale is 1:24,000

6. a. 5cm/ground=1/24000 => ground=120000cm=1200m
b. 5in/ground=1/24000 => ground=120000in=1.894mi
c. map/1mi=1/24000 => map=1mi/24000 => 6360/1in x 1/24000=2.64in
d. map/3km=1/24000 => map=3km/24000 => 300,000/3km x 1/24000=12.5cm

7. 20ft

8. (a) Degree/Minute/Seconds: 34° 03' 45''N, 118° 26' 20''W
Decimal Degrees: 34.0625°N, 118.4386°W
(b)Degree/Minutes/Seconds:34° 01' 12''N, 118° 29' 42''W
Decimal Degrees: 34.17°N, 118.495°W
(c) Degree/Minutes/Seconds: 34° 06' 43''N, 118° 25' 15''W
Decimal Degrees: 34.219°N, 118.4209°W

9. (a) 580ft and 176.83m
(b) 140ft and 42.627m
(c) 720 ft and 219.456m

10. Zone 11

11. Horizontal: ^3 61.5 easting
Vertical: ^37 63 northing

12. 1000000m^2

13.

14. +14 degrees

15. It flows south.

16.