Cartography of the United States
The Cartography of the United States is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the United States. Maps of the New World had been produced since the 19th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the thirteen original colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. Later, Samuel Augustus Mitchell published a map of the United States in 1867. The National Program for Topographic Mapping was initiated in 2001 by the United States Geological Survey.
