Week 2: USGS Topographic Maps

1) This is the Beverly Hills quadrangle. 

2) The adjacent quadrangles are Canoga Park, Van Nuys, Burbank, Topanga, Hollywood, Venice, and Inglewood.  The Pacific Ocean is also adjacent to the Beverly Hills quadrangle. 

3) This quadrangle was first created in 1966.

4) The datum used to create this map are the North American Datum of 1927, North American Datum of 1983, and the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.

5) The map scale is 1:24000

6) Scale
a) 5 cm on the map is equivalent to 1200 m on the ground.

b) 5 in on the map= 1.8939 miles on the ground

c) one mile on the ground = 2.64 in on map

d) three km on the ground = 12.5 cm on map

7) Contour interval = 20 ft with supplementary contour interval of 10 feet

8) Geographic Coordinates

a) Public Affairs Building
                  Degrees/Minutes/Seconds: 34 degrees 4’ 30’’N, 118 degrees 26; 15’’W
                  Decimal Degrees: 34.075 degrees N, -118.4375 degrees E

b) the tip of Santa Monica Pier

                  DMS: 34 degrees 0’30’’ N, 118 degrees 30’ W
                  DD: 34.0833 degrees N, -18.5 degrees E

c) Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir

                  DMS: 34 degree 6’15’’ N, 118 degrees 25’15’’ W
                  DD: 34.1042 degrees N, -118.42083 degrees E

9) Elevation

a) Greystone Mansion: 560 feet, 170 meters

b) Woodlawn Cemetery: 140 feet, 42 meters

c) Crestwood Hills Park: 700 feet, 213 meters

10) UTM Zone 11

11) The UTM coordinates for the lower left corner are 37^63

12) Each cell of the UTM gridlines contains 1,000,000m^2

13) Elevation Profile along the UTM northing 3771000: (elevation is given in meters)

14) The magnetic declination of the map is 14 degrees. 

15) The water in the intermittent stream between the 405 freeway and Stone Canyon Reservoir flows south because elevation decreases from north to south.


16) UCLA from the topographic map