Cherokee Purchase Unit, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee

Dublin Core

Title

Cherokee Purchase Unit, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee

Subject

Chattahoochee National Forest (Ga.)
Cherokee National Forest (Tenn.)
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)
Nantahala National Forest (N.C.)

Description

Traced by S.L. Acker, 1931 ; additional compilation and new boundary by R.S. Shaw, June 1934. "Status lines to date: Sept. 15, 1932--W.S.M." "Forest Supervisor's headquarters, Athens, Tenn." Map also shows good and poor motor roads, trails, railroads, triangulation stations, towns, named rivers, creeks, ridges and mountain tops, a section of the adjoining Nantahala National Forest and a section of the adjoining Great Smoky Mountains National Park, numbered Cherokee National Forest ranger districts in Georgia. These ranger districts formed parts of the Chattahoochee National Forest in 1936 (Proclamation No. 2184, 1 Fed. Reg. 763 (July 14, 1936))
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights

Creator

United States. Forest Service

Source

Maps - Special Collection

Publisher

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Date

1934

Contributor

Acker, S. L.
Shaw, R. S.

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Format

jpg;
maps (documents)

Type

StillImage

Identifier

33951
https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/33951

Alternative Title

Cherokee National Forest

Date Issued

1934

Rights Holder

All rights reserved. For permissions, contact Hunter Library Special Collections, Western Carolina U, Cullowhee, NC 28723;

Spatial Coverage

Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)
Nantahala National Forest (N.C.)

Extent

41.5" x 37.5"(size)
approximately 1:126,720(scale)
W 84°40ʹ--W 83°40ʹ/N 35°30ʹ--N 34°40ʹ(scale)

Is Part Of

Western North Carolina Regional Maps

Citation

United States. Forest Service, “Cherokee Purchase Unit, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee,” OAI, accessed June 15, 2025, https://sadc.qi-cms.com/omeka/items/show/33951.