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CONTROL DATA AND MONUMENTS

Aerial photographic roll and frame number*

Horizontal control

Third order or better, permanent mark

With third order or better elevation

Check spot elevation

Coincident with section corner

Unmonumented*

Vertical control

Third order or better, with tablet

Third order or better, recoverable mark

Bench mark found at section corner

Spot elevation

Boundary monument

With tablet

Without tablet

With number and elevation

U.S. mineral or location monument


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CONTOURS
Topographic

Intermediate

Index

Supplementary

Depression

Cut; Fill

Bathymetric

Intermediate

Index

Primary

Index Primary

Supplementary


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BOUNDARIES

National

State or territorial

County or equivalent

Civil township or equivalent

Incorporated city or equivalent

Park, reservation, or monument

Small Park


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LAND SURVEY SYSTEMS
U.S. Public Land Survey System

Township or range line

Location doubtful

Section Line

Location doubtful

Found section corner; found closing corner

Witness corner; meander corner
Other land surveys

Township or range line

Section line

Land grant or mining claim; monument

Fence line

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SURFACE FEATURES

Levee

Sand or mud area, dunes or shifting sand

Intricate surface area

Gravel beach or glacial moraine

Tailings pond


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MINES AND CAVES

Quarry or open pit mine

Gravel, sand, clay, or borrow pit

Mine tunnel or cave entrance

Prospect; mine shaft

Mine dump

Tailings


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VEGETATION

Woods

Scrub

Orchard

Vineyard

Mangrove


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GLACIERS AND PERMANENT SNOWFIELDS

Contours and limits

Form lines


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MARINE SHORELINE
Topographic Maps

Approximate mean high water

Indefinite or unsurveyed

Topographic-bathymetric maps

Mean high water

Apparent (edge of vegetation)


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BUILDINGS AND RELATED FEATURES

Building

School; church

Built-up Area

Racetrack

Airport

Landing strip

Well (other than water); windmill

Tanks

Covered reservoir

Gaging station

Landmark object (feature as labeled)

Campground; picnic area

Cemetery: small; large


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BATHYMETRIC FEATURES

Area exposed at mean low tide; sounding datum

Channel

Offshore oil or gas: well; platform

Sunken rock


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RIVERS, LAKES, AND CANALS

Intermittent stream

Intermittent river

Disappearing stream

Perennial stream

Perennial river

Small falls; small rapids

Large falls; large rapids

Masonry dam

Dam with rock

Dam carrying road

Perennial lake; Intermittent lake or pond

Dry lake

Narrow wash

Wide wash

Canal, flume, or aqueduct with lock

Elevated aqueduct, flume or conduit

Aqueduct tunnel

Well or spring; spring or seep


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SUBMERGED AREAS AND BOGS

Marsh or swamp

Submerged marsh or swamp

Wooded marsh or swamp

Submerged wooded marsh or swamp

Rice field

Land subject to inundation


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ROADS AND RELATED FEATURES

Roads on Provisional edition maps are not classified as primary, secondary, or light duty. They are all symbolized as light duty roads.

Primary highway

Secondary highway

Light duty road

Unimproved road

Trail

Dual highway

Dual highway with median strip

Road under construction

Underpass; overpass

Bridge

Drawbridge

Tunnel


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RAILROADS AND RELATED FEATURES

Standard gauge single track; station

Standard gauge multiple track

Abandoned

Under construction

Narrow gauge single track

Narrow gauge multiple track

Railroad in street

Juxtaposition

Roundhouse and turntable


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TRANSMISSION LINES AND PIPELINES

Power transmission line: pole; tower

Telephone line

Aboveground oil or gas pipeline

Underground oil or gas pipeline


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