1862 U.S. Coast Survey Map of Coos Bay, Oregon
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Description: An uncommon 1862 U.S. Coast Survey nautical chart or maritime map of Coos Bay (Koos Bay), Oregon. The map covers the entrance to Coos Bay from Cape Gregory to South Slough and north beyond Pigeon Point along the Coos River. The map offers fine detail both along the coasts and at sea with countess depth sounds, notes on lights, rocks, and breakers, and some topographical detail. Notes on tides appear in the upper left quadrant. Notes on sounding are located in the lower left. The triangulation, topography, and hydrography for this chart were accomplished by Jas. S. Lawson. The scale is 1:20000.
Date: 1862 (dated)
Source: Bache, A. D., Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, (Washington) 1862.
Cartographer: The Office of the Coast Survey, founded in 1807 by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of Commerce Albert Gallatin, is the oldest scientific organization in the U.S. Federal Government. Jefferson created the "Survey of the Coast," as it was then called, in response to a need for accurate navigational charts of the new nation's coasts and harbors. The first superintendent of the Coast Survey was Swiss immigrant and West Point mathematics professor Ferdinand Hassler. Under the direction of Hassler, from 1816 to 1843, the ideological and scientific foundations for the Coast Survey were established. Hassler, and the Coast Survey under him developed a reputation for uncompromising dedication to the principles of accuracy and excellence. Hassler lead the Coast Survey until his death in 1843, at which time Alexander Dallas Bache, a great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, took the helm. Under the leadership A. D. Bache, the Coast Survey did most of its most important work. During his Superintendence, from 1843 to 1865, Bache was steadfast advocate of American science and navigation and in fact founded the American Academy of Sciences. Bache was succeeded by Benjamin Pierce who ran the Survey from 1867 to 1874. Pierce was in turn succeeded by Carlile Pollock Patterson who was Superintendent from 1874 to 1881. In 1878, under Patterson's superintendence, the U.S. Coast Survey was reorganized as the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (C & GS or USGS) to accommodate topographic as well as nautical surveys. Today the Coast Survey is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA. Click here for a list of rare maps from the U. S. Coast Survey.
Size: Printed area measures 17.5 x 15 inches (44.45 x 38.1 centimeters)
Condition: Very good. Some toning and wear on original fold lines. Some additional creasing along right center vertical fold. Blank on verso.
Code: KoosBayOregon-uscs-1862 (to order by phone call: 646-320-8650)
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