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Map showing proposed metropolitan Las Vegas development area, June 24, 1997

Date

1997-06-24

Description

'Data sources: Advanced Planning Division, Clark County, Nevada.' 'Comprehensive Planning, Advanced Planning Division.' 'June 24, 1997.' Shows federal land, metropolitan Las Vegas development area, Las Vegas urban growth boundary and section lines. Scale [ca. 1:154,056. 1 inch to approx. 12,838 feet].

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Map of Clark's Las Vegas Townsite, May 8, 1905

Date

1905-05-08

Description

'Book 1, Page 37.' 'Dated: May 8th, 1905.' Subtitle: 'Being a sub-division of parts of the W.1/2 and the W.1/2 of the N.E.1/4 of Section 34 and the S.1/2 of the S.W.1/4 of Section 27 T.20 S.R. 61 E, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian, Lincoln County, Nevada. A Plat map. Blueline print. Scale [ca. 1:2,400]. 1 in. to 200 feet.

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Map of Las Vegas and vicinity, Clark County, Nevada, November 1952

Date

1952-11

Description

'Copyright 1950. 3rd issue, November 1952.'

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Las Vegas Valley map, Clark County, Nevada, June 1958

Date

1958

Description

'Compiled 1954. First revision - June 1958.' 'Area extends 9 miles north, 11 miles south, and 3 miles east, 3 miles west city limits of Las Vegas.' Original publisher: Campbell Realty. Scale [ca. 1:60,000. 1 in. to approx. 5,000 ft.]. Cadastral map. Hand-drawn red line around some sections on map.

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Map of Las Vegas Valley, 1968

Date

1968

Description

'This map compiled by General Drafting Service to show purchases in the Las Vegas area by Howard Hughes and others reported to be affiliated with him.' Shows land owned by Howard Hughes and land owned by Hughes Tool Company. Includes locations of casinos on Las Vegas Strip. Original publisher: General Drafting Service. Scale [ca. 1:48,000]. 1 in. to 4,000 feet. Hand-colored.

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Map showing the different routes travelled over by the detachments of the Overland Command in the spring of 1855 from Salt Lake City, Utah, to the Bay of San Francisco, 1855

Date

1855

Description

57 x 47 cm., folded to 22 x 13 cm. Indicates routes of Capt. Ingalls, Col. Steptoe,and Lt. Mowrey, and shows camping grounds. Relief shown by hachures. Graphic scale given in geographical as well as statute miles. "Ackerman Lith. 319 Broadway, N.Y." Hand colored. Original publisher unknown, Series: House Ex. Doc. No. 1, 1st session, 34th Congress.

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Map showing the different routes travelled over by the detachments of the Overland Command in the spring of 1855 from Salt Lake City, Utah, to the Bay of San Francisco, 1855

Date

1855

Description

57 x 47 cm. Indicates routes of Capt. Ingalls, Col. Steptoe, and Lt. Mowrey, and camping grounds. "Ackerman Lith. 319 Broadway, N.Y." Relief shown by hachures. In Wheat, "Mapping of the Trans-Mississippi West", v. 4, p. 210. Library's copy 1 is poor quality and not in color. Original publisher unknown, Series: Senate Ex. Doc. No. 1, 1st session, 34th Congress.

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Map of part of south western Colorado, January 10, 1878

Date

1878-01-10

Description

38 x 49 cm. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "Atlas sheet no. 61(D)." "Issued Jan. 10th 1878." "Expeditions of 1873, 74, 75 & 76 under the command of 1st. Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army." Prime meridians: Washington, D.C. and Greenwich. Includes sectional diagram showing how atlas sheets fit together. "Weyss, Lang & Herman, del." "By order of the honorable the Secretary of War." "Under the direction of Brig. General A. A. Hunphreys, Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army." " J. C. Spiller, Louis Nell, topographical assistants." "Expeditions of 1873, 74, 75 & 76 under the command of 1st. Lieutenant William L. Marshall, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, 1st Lieutenant Eric Bergland, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, Executive Officers and field astronomers." Original publisher: U.S. Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Scale 1 inch to 4 miles or 1:253440.

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