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1976 Map of Moose Bog

Name: 1976 Topographic Map of Moose Bog
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1983
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1983

About this map

Moose Bog and the surrounding wilderness of Oxford County are captured in this orthophotograph, which translates aerial imagery into a rectified topographic study. The landscape is defined by its complex drainage patterns, where the Magalloway River receives water from the Moose Brook and the West Branch. These watercourses carve through dense forest cover, punctuated by isolated water bodies like Barker Pond and Mountain Pond.

The absence of named roads or settlements highlights the remote, undeveloped character of this border region near Quebec. Instead, the geography is recorded through its natural hydrologic features, such as the Third East Branch and Pond Brook. For researchers of the northern Maine woods, this imagery provides a precise visual baseline of forest density and wetland boundaries as they existed in the mid-1970s.