USGS Historical Topo Maps: Who Made Them

Doing a little research into the names listed on this old 1895 topographic map.

I see the same names on the San Jose map from the same year. Some names are different on the San Mateo and San Francisco maps from 1892 and 1899.

Avenza Maps:
https://www.avenzamaps.com/
You can have up to 3 user installed maps activated for off-line use in the free version if you want to try out a historic topo map.

TopoView web site to view/download maps:
https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/

USGS personnel:
Henry Gannett
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/henry-gannett-7484.php
Topographic Methods, 1906 publication:
https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/0307/report.pdf

Richard U. Goode:
https://prabook.com/web/richard_urquhart.goode/1106515

Robert B. Marshall
https://www.watereducation.org/aquapedia/robert-b-marshall
https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/0646/report.pdf
https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/0673/report.pdf
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf687005vn/

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