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Will US Topo maps become part of the Historical Topographic Map Collection when a newer version is published?

Superseded US Topo maps will remain available for download, but will not become part of the Historical Topographic Map Collection, which is scans of USGS topographic quadrangles originally published as paper documents between 1884-2006.

The first US Topo maps were published in 2009. They are updated and superseded every 3 years (maps for one third of the country are produced every year). This does not include US Topos for Alaska, which are on a different schedule.

The USGS Store only contains the most recent version of each US Topo, but you can freely download all dates of US Topo maps using TopoView or The National Map Downloader.

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