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Historic maps of San Francisco, georeferenced and distributed as free kmz file downloads available on the downloads page. User is free to modify and redistribute the files, and all the map image content is in the public domain.
1857 U.S.C.S. Map of San Francisco Bay - Geographicus - SanFrancisco-uscs-1857.jpg 4,000 × 4,935; 1.97 MB. 1873 Map of the region adjacent to the bay of San Francisco, by U.S. Coast Survey and Surveyor General's Office, C. F. Hoffman, Julius Bien, from the Digital Commonwealth - commonwealth 4m90fc21k.jpg 7,566 × 10,370; 111.87 MB.
One side of the map features an 18" x 24" map of the entire San Francisco Bay Area. The other side includes the five smaller maps shown on this page -- Downtown San Francisco, Fisherman's Wharf, Golden Gate Park, San Jose & Santa Clara, and the Wine Country.
San Francisco Bay is a flooded river canyon that formed as a result of rising sea levels at the end of the last ice age. TOPIC BACKGROUND. There is a sense of permanence in the Bay Area landscape. Yet the familiar three-bay formation is very young on a geologic time scale—just 10,000 or so years old.
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These maps of the San Francisco Bay Area are illustrative of the various approaches to seeing the geography of a place. They tell us about exploration; about important events, including cataclysmic ones; about the value of land as landscape and property, and its use, preservation, and exploitation; about the surveillance or monitoring of a ...
The San Francisco & the Bay Area Visitor’s Map is a full-color, pictorial map of the San Francisco Bay Area. It includes six maps. One side of the map features an 18" x 24" map of the entire San Francisco Bay Area.
To begin to understand San Francisco, stroll through San Francisco’s Mission District, where people’s history and struggles are evident at every turn. Even amid rapid change, Mission Street still hosts stalwart taquerias and family-owned markets with signs in Spanish and Chinese.
