| Variant title |
1970 national atlas of the United States of America |
| Variant title |
National atlases |
| Cartographic data | Scales differ. |
| Abstract |
The National Atlas of the United States of America was published in 1970. It was designed to be of practical use to decision makers in government and business, and for planners and research scholars as well as others needing to visualize country-wide distributional patterns and relationships between environmental phenomena and human activities. The National Atlas represents the principal characteristics of the country in 1970, including its physical features, historical evolution, economic activities, sociocultural conditions, administrative subdivisions, and place in world affairs. The first part of the National Atlas is devoted to general reference maps that contain most of the forty-one thousand place names recorded in the index. These maps were included for the convenience of readers wanting basic locational information. In the thematic section of the National Atlas, separate subdivisions deal with the country's physical, historical, economic, and socio-cultural characteristics. The maps in this portion of the atlas represent the relationships between human beings and their environment while offering scientific bases for analyzing the nation's economic development in 1970. The National Atlas proved to be the last paper atlas of this magnitude produced by the federal government. |
| General note | GPO Cataloging Record Distribution Program (CRDP). |
| Source of description | Identification of the resource based on contents viewed on March 19, 2020 ; title from home page. on (Nov 7, 2005). |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (FRASER, viewed Jan. 14, 2021). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Geological Survey (U.S.). National atlas of the United States of America. Washington, 1970 |
| Genre/form | Census data. |
| Genre/form | Atlases. |
| Genre/form | Maps. |
| Genre/form | Statistical maps. |
| Genre/form | Atlases. |
| GPO item number | 0621 (online) |
| Govt. docs number |
I 19.2:AT 6/2 |
