The Topozone.com

For those of you that have taken the plunge onto the Internet you know that there are many resources available that are of great benefit to the detectorist. Maps are one of those resources and Topozone.com is a very handy one.

Topozone.com has all of the USGS (United States Georgaphical Survey) maps for the US in resolutions from 1:200,000 to 1:25,000. to give you an idea of what these scales look like there are two maps of Warsaw, IN printed below. The first is at a resolution of 1:200,000 and the second is at 1:25,000.

These maps can be used in several different ways. As a regular map they will let you see modern road numbers to compare to older maps, check for public beaches and accesses, find geographic features described in old diaries or newspaper articles, etc.