{"product_id":"old-map-of-swansboro-north-carolina-by-usgs-1952-bogue-sound-onslow-bay-bogue-inlet","title":"Old Map of Swansboro, North Carolina by USGS, 1952 – Bogue Sound, Onslow Bay \u0026 Bogue Inlet","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1968 from 1952 mapping, the US Geological Survey’s “Swansboro” captures a finely observed coastal corner of North Carolina at the authoritative 1:24,000 scale. Centered on the town of Swansboro, the map records the meeting of settlement, forest, creek, sound, inlet, and ocean along the state’s intricate Atlantic margin. Its title is spare, but the landscape it describes is wonderfully complex: Bogue Sound stretches nearby, Onslow Bay opens toward the Atlantic Ocean, and a filigree of tidal waterways shapes the low country around Potters Creek, Roger Inlet, and Bogue Inlet. As a mid-twentieth-century geographic document, it preserves the region before later waves of coastal development transformed many shorelines, roads, and waterside communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe US Geological Survey brought to this map the precision and restraint that define its most admired topographic work. Established as a federal scientific agency, the USGS was tasked with measuring, classifying, and presenting the American landscape with dependable accuracy, whether for resource management, navigation, engineering, or public knowledge. In “Swansboro,” that mission is visible in every contour, shoreline, road trace, and water boundary. The cartography is not ornamental in the antique sense, yet it possesses its own disciplined elegance: a language of fine lines, measured intervals, standardized symbols, and carefully differentiated color. Greens and blues distinguish land and water with quiet clarity, while contour lines give shape to an area where subtle changes in elevation matter greatly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSwansboro itself occupies a historically strategic coastal position, close to sounds, inlets, and the broader Atlantic seaboard. The map places the town within a living network of creeks, shorelines, roads, and maritime passages, revealing why such communities developed around protected waters and access to the sea. Bogue Sound and Onslow Bay are not merely background features; they define patterns of movement, fishing, settlement, and environmental change. The inlets shown here—especially Bogue Inlet and Roger Inlet—suggest the dynamic character of barrier-coast geography, where sand, tide, storm, and current continually reshape the edge of the land. For collectors, this is a portrait of coastal North Carolina at a precise historical moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe topographic character of the map is especially compelling because it records a landscape of quiet gradients rather than dramatic mountains. In such coastal terrain, contour lines become a subtle but essential guide to ridges, low rises, drainage patterns, and vulnerable lowlands. The map’s depiction of waterways, shoreline features, and marsh-adjacent geography makes it valuable for understanding how land and water interlock along this part of the North Carolina coast. Roads and pathways thread between settled areas and natural spaces, showing both human use and the constraints imposed by creeks, sounds, and forested tracts. The presence of national forest areas adds another layer of interest, setting managed public lands beside tidal routes and coastal settlement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a historical document, “Swansboro” offers more than geographic orientation; it provides a baseline for measuring change. Its 1952 landscape can be compared against later maps and satellite views to trace development, road expansion, shoreline alteration, and shifting land use around Swansboro, Bogue Sound, and the Atlantic-facing coast. Coastal North Carolina has long been shaped by storms, erosion, tourism, military presence, fishing economies, conservation, and residential growth, and this map predates many later transformations. The clarity of the USGS topographic style allows those changes to be read with unusual precision. For anyone drawn to maritime landscapes, environmental history, or the cartographic record of the American South, this map is a richly informative glimpse of a changing shore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCities, towns and places on this map\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSwansboro, NC\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOnslow Bay\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAtlantic Ocean\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBogue Sound\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoger Inlet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePotters Creek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBogue Inlet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNational Forest areas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoads and pathways\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShoreline features and coastal geography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHistorical context \u0026amp; cartographic details\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProduced by the US Geological Survey, this historical 1:24,000 topographical map shows Swansboro, North Carolina, and the surrounding area.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe map is dated 1952 and carries a 1968 imprint.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished by the US Geological Survey, a scientific agency of the U.S. government that provides information about natural resources, natural hazards, and the American landscape.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe map uses greens and blues to distinguish land and water features.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContour lines provide elevation detail across the mapped area.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe map documents geographical features as they existed in 1952, making it useful for historical comparison of land use, development, and environmental change.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLooking for a particular place?\u003c\/strong\u003e Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, \u003ca target=\"”_blank”\" href=\"\/fr\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eask our workshop to check before you order\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDetailed maps are especially rewarding at larger sizes, where names, boundaries and decorative features have more room to be appreciated. Use the close-up preview and size guide to choose the right scale for your wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please \u003ca href=\"\/fr\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eget in touch\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe model in the listing images is holding the 16x20in (40x50cm) version of this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere personalisation is available, you can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. \u003ca target=\"”_blank”\" href=\"\/fr\/pages\/map-personalisation\"\u003eSee personalised map examples\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery piece is printed to museum-grade archival standards using fade-resistant pigment inks on acid-free matte paper. Choose an unframed map print, framed map or canvas using the finish options above. Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith its rich detail and strong sense of place, this map makes a considered gift for a new home, anniversary, retirement or anyone with a personal connection to the area shown. Still deciding? 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