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Maps · the ground drawn, from the French sheets to the aerial frame
Walkerton was drawn before it was built, and it has been drawn ever since by people with different purposes: empire, survey, sale, insurance, travel, planning and flight. This section runs the drawing classes in order — the imperial sheets that first put this river system on European paper; the county wall map that first drew the county whole; the subscription atlases and plat books that sold the county back to its own landowners for a hundred and forty years; the bird's-eye test, which returns a negative; the working street sheets, which return a thinner record than the register hoped; the Sanborn fire-insurance run, measured at last, edition by edition; the plans that drew the town as it was meant to become; the maps made for travellers; the booster maps made to persuade; the national topographic record; and the photographic map made from the air. Two classes stand banked already and are pointed to, not retold: the federal survey as a map event (Before the City), the town plats as the town's first maps and the living county GIS (Neighborhoods), and the 1875 atlas read as a book (Sources).
#135 · L35.1 — The ground on imperial and French maps first: the St. Joseph–Kankakee valley, 1679–1763
Before there was a county to map, there was a river system to get wrong on paper, and the French century got it progressively less wrong. The ground in question is specific: the upper St. That route, not the townsite, is what…
#136 · L35.4 — The first county map named: Stokes and Shober, 1863
The register set the floor as a test — the Stokes-and-Shober 1863 class — and the test passes: that map is real, it is this county's, and no earlier county map is named in any catalogue reached. Its full record, from the Library…
#137 · L35.5 — The atlas trade whole: from Higgins, Belden (1875) to the GIS age
The banked build carried this trade for exactly one book — the 1875 atlas, read whole in Sources and Neighborhoods. Joseph County holdings list, the catalogue of record for the county's maps, atlases and plat books, with the…
#138 · L35.6 — The bird's-eye test: no panoramic view of Walkerton
The test was run against the collection the register names — the Library of Congress's panoramic maps — and the answer is negative, printed whole as the register requires. The searches, stated so the negative can be weighed: the…
#139 · L35.7 — The working city map run: what street sheets exist for this town
The register hoped for a dated series of street sheets, 1876–2005 style. The holdings do not support that series for Walkerton, and this article prints the true size of what exists instead of borrowing the county seat's series.…
#140 · L35.8 — The Sanborn Run Measured: Walkerton's fire-insurance editions, 1886–1944
Three legs of the banked build named the Sanborn sheets as a settler — Transportation's GAP-W-TRN-4, Arts & Culture's GAP-W-ART-1, Businesses' GAP-W6-4 and GAP-W6-5 — and no fragment stated the run's years. This article states…
#141 · L35.9 — Plans as maps: the town drawn as it was meant to become
A plan is a map of a decision, and Walkerton's plan record, read for this section, is thinner than its map record — printed here plan by plan at the size reached, with the Brockton, Ontario namesake excluded by name wherever it…
#142 · L35.10 — Roads, mail and highway maps: the county drawn for travellers
A whole class of maps was made neither to own land by nor to insure it, but to move through it — and Walkerton's traveller's maps survive at county scale, in the State Library's list, as a dated series this article reads as a…
#143 · L35.11 — Booster cartography: the map as advertisement
Some of the maps in this section were evidence. These were arguments. Booster cartography — the map drawn to persuade a buyer, a settler or a passenger — touches this ground in three named forms, and this article names the…
#144 · L35.12 — The national topographic record: the Walkerton quadrangle
The federal government eventually mapped this ground the way it mapped all ground — by quadrangle, at standard scales, in dated editions — and the quadrangle's name is the town's. The Walkerton quadrangle , Indiana, is a…
#145 · L35.13 — From the air: the photographic map, first coverage to the present imagery
The last map class was not drawn at all; it was photographed, in rows, from an aeroplane — and for farm country it begins, as a federal programme, in the later 1930s. The mechanism is the record: from the mid-1930s the US…