Key to Topographic Maps

Select a category below:

• Control Data and Monuments
• Boundaries
• Land Survey Systems
• Roads and Related Features
• Buildings and Related Features
• Railroads and Related Features
• Transmission Lines and Pipelines
• Contours
• Mines and Caves
• Surface Features
• Vegetation
• Marine Shoreline
• Coastal Features
• Bathymetric Features
• Rivers, Lakes and Canals
• Glaciers and Permanent Snowfields
• Submerged Areas and Bogs

Source: Topographic Map Symbols, US Geological Survey, National Mapping Division.

Created by K.A. Lemke (klemke@uwsp.edu). March 3, 1999.