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1985 Map of Kittery

Name: 1985 Topographic Map of Kittery
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1989
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1989

About this map

The Piscataqua River forms the natural heart of this coastal boundary region, separating Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from Kittery, Maine. In the mid-1980s, the landscape is defined by the heavy footprint of the Pease Air Force Base and the academic sprawl of the University of New Hampshire at Durham. The coastline is a complex of marshes and rocky points, protected in part by the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge and historic shoreline preserves like Odiorne Point State Park.

Further inland, the terrain rises toward Mount Agamenticus, while the industrial and transport history of the seacoast is visible in the corridor of the Boston and Maine Railroad. From the harbor at York Harbor to the inland mills of Sanford and South Berwick, the map details a sophisticated network of state highways and the Maine Turnpike that supported the late-century growth of these historic maritime and textile towns.