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1900 Map of Staten Island

Name: 1900 Topographic Map of Staten Island
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1926
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1926

About this map

Staten Island and the surrounding waters of the Upper Bay and Newark Bay appear here during a transformative era of maritime and rail expansion. The map details the complex industrial shoreline of New Jersey, from the Morris Canal in Kearny down to the refineries of Elizabethport and Carteret. Strategic military installations guard The Narrows, including Fort Wadsworth and Fort Tompkins, while the harbor islands—Ellis Island, Governors Island, and Bedloe Id.—stand as landmarks in the approach to The Battery.

On the island itself, the Staten Island Railroad connects established settlements like Richmond Valley, New Dorp, and St George. The interior landscape reveals a mix of tidal marshes along Fresh Kills and developed areas near Silver Lake. Of particular interest to local historians are the numerous family-named landmarks and cemeteries, such as the Moravia Cemetery and the Woods of Arden, which reflect the early residential character of the borough before the massive suburbanization of the mid-20th century.