Map of the United States Showing Distribution of Peat Deposits and Approximate Location of Plants that Produced Peat in 1918

Subject

United States peat deposits

Date

1918 (historical)

Mapmaker

Compiled by C. A [unintelligible]; revised by E. K. Soper and C. [Osborne?]

Publisher

U. S. Geological Survey

Place of Publication

[Washington, D. C. ?]

Accession Number

T0055.1997.0482

Condition

Poor-fair. Acidified, browning, torn, ragged along edges, printed on fragile paper.

Notes

From U. S. Geologocal Survey Bulletin 728. In Louisiana, area marked, "area of swamp in which no workable peat beds are known." Along Louisiana coastline, area marked, "area in which workable peat beds occur."

Size

17 x 28 1/2

Storage

c04d03