Homework 2: Reading USGS Topographic Maps

1) The name of the quadrangle is Beverly Hills.
2) The names of the adjacent quadrangles are: Canoga Park, Van Nuys, Burbank, Topanga, Hollywood, Venice, and Inglewood.
3) The quadrangle was first created in 1966.
4) The horizontal data used to create this map are the North American Datum of 1927 and the North American Datum of 1983. The vertical datum used to create this map is National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.
5) The scale of the map is 1:24,000.
6a) 1200 m
6b) 1.89 mi
6c) 2.64 in

6d) 12.5 cm

7) The contour interval for the map is 20 ft. The supplementary contour interval is 10 ft.

8a) Public Affairs Building: 

      degrees/minutes/seconds:

      34° 4' 30" N, 118° 26' 30" W

      decimal degrees:

      34.075° N, 118.442° W

8b) the tip of the Santa Monica Pier: 

      degrees/minutes/seconds:

      34° 0' 30'' N, 118° 30' 00" W

      decimal degrees:

      34.008° N, 118.5° W

8c) the Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir: 

      degrees/minutes/seconds:

      34° 7' 20" N, 118° 24' 30" W

      decimal degrees:

      34.122° N, 118.408° W 

9a) Greystone Mansion elevation:

      560 ft or 170.688 m

9b) Woodlawn Cemetary

      140 ft or 42.672 m

9c) Crestwood Hills Park

      740 ft or 225.552 m

10) The UTM zone of the map is zone 11.

11) The UTM coordinates for the lower left corner of map are 3,763,000 m northing and 361,500 m easting.

12) 1,000,000 square meters (1 square kilometer) are contained within each cell (square) of the UTM gridlines.

13) See below:

14) The magnetic declination is 14° E.

15) The water in the intermittent stream between the 405 freeway and Stone Canyon Reservoir flows from North to South.

16) Screenshot of UCLA: