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English: 1890s' series USGS cropped and processed topographical map selected to demonstrate landform definitions in an actual terrain setting. Several types of curves have been added to aid educational understanding.
  1. This map is a rotated extract of This map used to delineate and illustrate the region's drainage divides.
  2. The features on this map are also shown on This Map just East from McAdoo Heights, just West of Waverly, the stream along Broad Mountain is Quakake Creek, on this map traced by the course of the railroad on the left—the map shown is rotated with North to the Right side, East is DOWN.
  3. Best estimate, the center of map is Kline Township, PA about: 40.907860,-75.992088
  4. BING maps finds these nearby points before settling on those coordinates: (Bolded terms have matching terms on this map)
    1. Tresckow, PA -- 40.914959,-75.966248
    2. 285 Silverbrook Rd, McAdoo, PA 18237 -- 40.884390, -75.983194
    3. Kline Township, PA -- 40.881020, -75.962454 (NOW Still Creek Reservoir -along Quakake Rd which used to be Quakake Railroad tracks.

Annotation (Yellow squares) labels: For Tutorials:

A, B, C, D, & E -- Are all Saddle (landform) features, which this extract was cropped to demonstrate and educate about.

L -- inside an arrow, points out that watercourses create a Vee notch in the topography lines.

P -- Shows PEAK or Summit as labeled by USGS practices.

T -- A Traverse -- an inclined path climbing/descending across the contours of the countryside.

Unlabeled landforms...
at the least include: Creeks, runs, streams, ravines, gaps, minor plateaus, escarpments, cliffs, notches, and rivers.
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This image is in the public domain in the United States because it only contains materials that originally came from the United States Geological Survey, an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. For more information, see the official USGS copyright policy.

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Author FrankB modified the map with (language neutral) letters for labeling features in a legend
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Map was produced with Legend Labels and not Language annotations so it can be used
Other versions Derived from This map illustrating Drainage Divides. Note the correspondences along the left edge of this larger map.

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