[juliusgeo]

I was obsessed with topographic maps as a kid—had the paper maps for most of the counties in my corner of my state. Led to an interest in geography, and is the reason my usernames on most platforms have been my name+geo for the last two decades. You could buy the quadrant maps at various general stores in my area, and bought a few of the larger county maps at the PA farm show. Those maps were huge—the size of a large rug, but incredibly detailed (showed individual houses outside of urban areas). At the time I was collecting them, the last survey had been done in the 1980s, and it was interesting seeing the in-progress highways marked that were at that time completely built. Looks like there was a gap in the surveys between 1984 and 2010 according to https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/, but now have been updated every ~3 years.