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May 7, 2014 · Speaking of post offices and maps: did you know that before 1837, the United States Post Office didn’t have an official map maker on staff? Instead, it was dependent on the commercial or amateur maps, which didn’t always contain the information needed to efficiently deliver mail and goods or to determine whether additional post offices should be established.
- Historical Background
- Contents of Site Reports
- Arrangement of Site Reports
- Site Reports by State/Territory
Before 1837, the U.S. Post Office Department had no official mapmaker and purchased its maps from commercial firms or private individuals. On March 13, 1837, Henry A. Burr was appointed the first Topographer of the Post Office, and he began preparing maps for postal officials' use. The reports of site locations provided data that the Topographer us...
Although Post Office site location reports changed in format over the years, most requested the following information about a post office: 1. County and State (or Territory); 2. Land description used by the Federal survey system (range, township, and section), if applicable; 3. Mail route number and distance to the nearest mail route; and 4. Closes...
The Post Office site location reports are arranged alphabetically by state (including the District of Colombia). Reports for states are followed by reports for territories (Panama Canal Zone, Guam, Samoa, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Philippine Islands). The reports for each state or territory are then arranged alphabetically by major c...
Alabama 1. Roll 1: Alabama, Autauga – Blount Counties 2. Roll 2: Alabama, Bullock – Chilton Counties 3. Roll 3: Alabama, Choctaw – Cleburne Counties 4. Roll 4: Alabama, Coffee – Crenshaw Counties 5. Roll 5: Alabama, Cullman – De Kalb Counties 6. Roll 6: Alabama, Elmore – Fayette Counties 7. Roll 7: Alabama, Franklin – Houston Counties 8. Roll 8: Al...
IO-AM. A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW From its earliest days, the post office has continually evolved to serve the changing postal needs of Canadians. OB.—PO s 1763 1851 1854 1867 1918 1963 1981 The first postal senice established in what would later become Canada Following the Treaty of Paris of 1763, in which Canada is ceded to Great Britain ...
Mar 22, 2022 · David Thompson, explorer, cartographer (born 30 April 1770 in London, England; died 10 February 1857 in Longueuil, Canada East). David Thomson was called “the greatest land geographer who ever lived.”. He walked or paddled 80,000 km or more in his life, mapping most of western Canada, parts of the east and the northwestern United States.
The Ptolemaic Map of the World is one of the most famous early maps. It was created by the Greek astronomer and mathematician Claudius Ptolemy in the 2nd century CE. The map was based on the idea that the Earth was a sphere. It showed the world as a circle surrounded by the ocean. The map was divided into seven climatic zones, including the ...
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The map is one of the oldest forms of nonverbal communication. Humans were probably drawing maps before they were writing texts. Mapmaking may even predate formal language. As far as historians and geographers can determine, every culture in every part of the world uses and makes maps. This deep lineage reflects the descriptive usefulness of a ...
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Feb 7, 2006 · Last Edited April 27, 2022. Cartography is the art, science and technology of making maps, plans, charts and globes representing Earth or any celestial body at any scale. Cartographic documents have been used as vehicles of communication by different cultures for many millennia; the earliest map to survive, drawn about 2300 BCE on a clay tablet ...
