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The national topographic record: the quadrangles that cover the CDP

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The United States Geological Survey's 7.5-minute series covers the Granger CDP almost entirely with one sheet: South Bend East, Indiana (quadrangle 41086-F2), with the CDP's eastern strip in the Osceola quadrangle (41086-F1) and only a thin state-line sliver falling in the Michigan sheets to the north. The historical quadrangle inventory gives South Bend East a first edition of 1958, a new survey edition of 1969, photorevisions in 1980 and 1986, and a 1991 edition; Osceola follows the identical pattern — 1958, 1969, photorevised 1980 and 1986. South Bend West (41086-F3), the adjoining sheet west, is listed at 1969 with a 1980 photorevision. The sheets are drawn at 1:24,000 with a five-foot contour interval — fine enough that the USGS's own Juday Creek sediment study of 1993–94 plotted its measurement sites across the South Bend East, South Bend West and Osceola sheets by name. The modern continuation is the US Topo series: the South Bend East US Topo editions of 2010 and 2013 are built from the National Map — NAIP imagery (January 2010 on the 2013 sheet), National Hydrography and Elevation datasets, GNIS names — at the same 1:24,000 frame. Read as a run, the topo record is the first mapping of this ground that wanted nothing from it: 1958 catches the farmland whole, 1969 catches the first subdivisions, and the photorevisions trace the rooftops spreading north-east across the sheet, one purple overprint at a time.

Sources: Illinois State Library / USGS historical topographic quadrangle inventory for Indiana, 1:24,000 (South Bend East 41086-F2: 1958, 1969, 1980 PR, 1986 PR, 1991; Osceola 41086-F1: 1958, 1969, 1980 PR, 1986 PR; South Bend West 41086-F3: 1969, 1980 PR); USGS US Topo, South Bend East, IN (2010 and 2013 editions, map collar data sources); Fowler & Wilson, USGS WRIR 95-4135 (Juday Creek sites plotted on the three named quadrangles, 5-ft contours).

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Source: The national topographic record: the quadrangles that cover the CDP, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/granger/maps/national-topographic-record-the-quadrangles-that-cover-the-cdp/