{"product_id":"old-map-of-trumansburg-new-york-by-usgs-1943-ithaca-cayuga-lake-taughannock-falls","title":"Old Map of Trumansburg, New York by USGS, 1943 – Ithaca, Cayuga Lake \u0026 Taughannock Falls","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1943 from survey data gathered the same year, the US Geological Survey’s “Trumansburg Quadrangle” presents a finely measured portrait of the Finger Lakes landscape around Trumansburg, New York, at a scale of 1:31,680. Centered on the village and its surrounding farms, roads, streams, and uplands, the map captures a wartime-era view of a region shaped by glacial geology and rural settlement. Cayuga Lake forms the great natural presence nearby, its long waters anchoring the quadrangle’s terrain and communities. Places such as Lake Ridge, Little Flatts, Cold Springs, Enfield, Salt Point, and Lodi Point appear within a web of highways and local roads, revealing how the area was connected before later suburban and infrastructural change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe map’s topographic character is especially compelling: close, rhythmic contour lines describe the rolling hills, dissected valleys, and steep lakeward slopes typical of central New York’s Finger Lakes region. Elevation is not merely recorded but visually orchestrated, giving the viewer an immediate sense of the land rising away from Cayuga Lake and breaking into ravines and creek valleys. Watercourses and unnamed tributaries thread through the countryside, their courses emphasized by the surrounding relief. Six Mile Creek and other drainage systems hint at the region’s long erosional history, while the carefully differentiated colors distinguish terrain, water, roads, and settlement. The result is both a technical document and a remarkably atmospheric landscape image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreated by the United States Geological Survey, the map reflects an institutional tradition of precision that began with the agency’s founding in 1879. The USGS was established to classify public lands and examine the nation’s geological structure, but its topographic quadrangles became indispensable tools for engineers, planners, scientists, soldiers, and travelers. By 1943, such maps represented one of the most systematic visual records of the American landscape. The “Trumansburg Quadrangle” belongs to this mature period of federal cartography, when field survey, contour mapping, and standardized symbology combined to produce maps of great clarity. Its elegance lies in restraint: every line, tint, and label serves the larger purpose of making terrain legible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorically, the 1943 date gives the map particular resonance. It records Trumansburg and the surrounding Cayuga Lake country during the Second World War, before many postwar changes in transportation, development, and land use reshaped rural America. The villages and road networks shown here preserve the geography of an older agricultural and small-town landscape, with Ithaca, Genoa, Ovid, Hector, and Montour Falls evoking the wider regional setting. Highways and secondary roads trace the patterns of movement between lake communities, upland farms, and market towns. For collectors interested in historical geography, the map offers a precise baseline against which decades of environmental, residential, and infrastructural change can be read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the most evocative features is the vicinity of Taughannock Falls State Park, one of New York’s celebrated natural landmarks, where dramatic gorge scenery descends toward Cayuga Lake. The quadrangle’s contours convey the forces that created such landscapes: glacial excavation, lake formation, and the persistent cutting action of streams. The shores around Salt Point and Lodi Point, the uplands near Enfield, and the rural stretches around Trumansburg together form a richly varied topographic composition. This is a map for those who appreciate both scientific exactitude and regional memory—an elegant record of hills, water, villages, and roads at a specific moment in time, rendered with the disciplined beauty of classic American survey cartography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCities, towns and places on this map\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrumansburg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIthaca\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenoa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLake Ridge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLittle Flatts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCold Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOvid\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHector\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMontour Falls\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCayuga Lake\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSalt Point\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLodi Point\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnfield\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTaughannock Falls State Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSix Mile Creek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWatercourses and tributaries, various unnamed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVarious highways and roads traversing the area\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHistorical context \u0026amp; cartographic details\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMap name: \u003cstrong\u003eTrumansburg Quadrangle\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProduced by the \u003cstrong\u003eUS Geological Survey\u003c\/strong\u003e in \u003cstrong\u003e1943\u003c\/strong\u003e, using survey data from the same year.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScale: \u003cstrong\u003e1:31,680\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreated by the US Geological Survey, an agency known for detailed geological and topographical mapping since its establishment in \u003cstrong\u003e1879\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFeatures a meticulous arrangement of contour lines representing the rolling landscape of the region.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUses varied colors to indicate differences in elevation and land use.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShows detailed elevation changes, including hills, valleys, and water bodies around Trumansburg.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvides a historical snapshot of the area’s geography in 1943, useful for comparing later changes in land use, urban development, and natural features.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDistinct contours and shaded relief illustrate the hilly terrain typical of New York’s Finger Lakes region.\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). 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