Lab 2: USGS Topographic Maps

1. What is the name of the quadrangle?
  Beverly Hills Quadrangle

2. What are the names of the adjacent quadrangles?
  Canoga Park, Van Nuys, Burbank, Topanga, Hollywood, Venice, and   Inglewood

3. When was the quadrangle first created?
  1966

4. What datum was used to create your map?
  National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929

5. What is the scale of the map?
  1:24000

6. At the above scale...
  a) 5 centimeters on the map to meters on the ground?
    1200 meters
  b) 5 inches on the map to miles on the ground?
    1.89 miles
  c) One mile on the ground to inches on the map?
    2.64 inches
  d) Three kilometers on the ground to centimeters on the map?
    12.5 centimeters

7. What is the contour interval on your map?
  20 feet

8. What are the approximate geographic coordinates of...
  a) the Public Affairs Building
    34° 4' 27" and 118° 26' 18"
    34.074° and 118.438°
  b) tip of Santa Monica pier
    34° 0' 26" and 118° 29' 57"
    34.007° and 118.499°
  c) the Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir
    34° 6' 11" and 118° 24' 46"
    34.103° and 118.413°

9. What is the approximate elevation in both feet and meters of...
  a) Greystone Mansion
    560 feet
  b) Woodlawn Cemetery
    140 feet
  c) Crestwood Hills Park
    620 feet

10. What is the UTM zone of the map?
  Zone 11

11. What are the UTM coordinates for the lower left corner of your map?
  3615000 mEasting, 3763000 mNorthing

12. How many square meters are contained within each cell of the UTM gridlines?
  1,000,000 square meters

13. Create an elevation profile along UTM northing 3771000.


14. What is the magnetic declination of the map?
  14° East

15. In which direction does water flow in the stream between the 405 and Stone Canyon Reservoir?
  From North to South

16. Crop out UCLA from the map.