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The modern federal sheets: cluster map and quadrangle

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2010–2026

The federal map record of the present day seats the town in a form its founders would not recognize: not a place on a wall map, but an Urban Cluster with a code. The Census Bureau's 2010 Census Urban Cluster Reference Map for New Carlisle — cluster UC 62056 — is the modern federal sheet for the place, drawing the town's urban footprint as the Bureau's density rules define it, a geography that answers to the cluster's population rather than the corporation's lines and includes, by the town's own service-area logic, country the plat never dreamed of. The topographic record stands thinner in this build: the United States Geological Survey's 7.5-minute quadrangle carrying the town — its name, its edition years, its revisions — was not pulled, and the want is banked as GAP-NC6-MAPS-3 with the Survey's topo index and National Map named as settlers; the quadrangle is the one federal sheet a history of this town will eventually need at edition strength, for the prairie's drainage, the railroad's grades and the place-names the topo sheets preserve after the places are gone, and it prints here as owed rather than guessed at.

Sources

  1. U.S. Census Bureau — 2010 Census Urban Cluster Reference Map, New Carlisle, UC 62056, as surfaced's searches.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey, National Map / topo index — named as the settler for the quadrangle record.

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Source: The modern federal sheets: cluster map and quadrangle, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/new-carlisle/maps/modern-federal-sheets-cluster-map-and-quadrangle/