Abstract

Historic Topographic Quad Catalog
Track: Tribal/Indigenous GIS Programs
Authors: Kevin Capone, GISP

In 2011 USGS began scanning over 200,000 historic topographic quadrangles for archival purposes, and provided them to the public at no cost. Being in GeoPDF format they are unusable in ArcMap. With an ArcGIS Organizational subscription you can use the ESRI Historical Topo Web Service. However, many Tribal Organization do not have a subscription to ArcGIS Online. Learn how you can create your own Historical Topographic Catalog using USGS GeoPDF's, and convert them to GeoTIF for use in ArcMap.