USGS topographic map indexes are located at the first table in the Map Room. Each state has an index. At the left is a facsimile of the cover of the New York topo map index.

USGS topo-quads circulate. Find the right map by using the indexes. For New York and Pennsylvania, you can also search BISON, the UB Libraries Catalog by title or by county (e.g., s = erie county n y--maps topographic).

New York Index to Quadrangles (1:24,000). This is a facsimile of the full index map with active links to higher resolution segments for ease of use.

Use this index to locate New York topo maps in the UB Map Collection. You may also search in BISON for New York and Pennsylvania topographic maps by title, county, and other features.

For pre-1950 maps (1:63,360) referred to as "Historic Topos", there is a map index, which also allows downloading of digitized versions of the originals (UB has original paper copies--See BISON).

1:24,000 Digital Raster Quadrangles Index Map (7.5 Minute Quadrangles) (New York State GIS Clearinghouse). Used to locate raster images and GIS data for quads but is useful for selecting paper maps as well (Click on quad location to obtain the quad name (for locating in drawer). You can view the entire state list by Quad Name, and can view map metadata (e.g., year of coverage, coordinates, etc.), and can download image files of each quad in low-res gif (2 gif versions for each quad), or in a zipped file that includes for each TIFF image internal GeoTIFF georegistration, a MapInfo format table file (.tab), and an ESRI format world file (.tfw).

Digital Topographic Maps

New York State

New York State Gazetteer & GeoData Collection. This UB Libaries page provides a gazetteer, along with the digital collection of downloadable USGS topographic maps, such as georeferenced Digital Raster Graphics (DRG's). These maps are suitable for both general use and GIS applications.

1:24,000 Scale Planimetric & Topographic Maps (7.5 Minute Quadrangles) (New York State GIS Clearinghouse). Index of all NYS topos showing filing title and year of latest edition (listed are topos and planimetrics).

New York Topographic Maps (selection). Topos (Scales 24k, 100k, 250k) covering selected portions of the state. Download as jpg or pdf.

Historic New York Topographic Maps (pre-1950).

Other States

To acquire digital topos for other states, Use the Guide: Locating and downloading United States Geological Survey Topographic Maps to help you locate topo maps, in paper and digital formats.

New York State 1:250,000 scale maps are in the Eastern United States 1:250,000 series, one of a number of map series produced by the U.S. Government. These can be identified in BISON by title and are shelved in the Map Room under Government Documents (SuDoc) number. The Map Collection has maps in this series for a number of states, and this series is part of a world-wide series of maps of the same scale. Click on the image at left to see the New York index. For example the title: Buffalo is located under: US I 19.110: 42078-A 1-TF-250/

New York State 30 x 60 minute series (1:100,000 scale) maps. These can be located in BISON and are shelved in the Map Room under SuDoc number. For example the title: Rochester, New York : 1:100 000-scale metric topographic map is located under: US I 19.110: 43077-A 1-TM-100 /994

Army Map Service (AMS) Map Series maps (World). Each region has an index map and digitized facsimiles of some of the maps in each series. (index at UT-Austin Library).

Army Map Service 1:250,000 Scale Topographic Maps of the United States. UB has most of these maps in its collection, see BISON for access. The link above is an index of all maps in the series. Click here for Alaska. (index at UT-Austin Library).

Use BISON to search for maps in the UB Map Collection first, then refer to these. You can search for these maps by title, country, by district, province, or state (in some cases), and other features.

Topographic Map Search. Search the database by NTS number, geographical name, geographic co-ordinates, or using a clickable map interface to locate any National Topographic System map sheet and its metadata (information about the map sheet) for any part of Canada.