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Historical Aerial Photos: Durham County 1972

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Durham County Aerial Photos 1972

The aerial photographs available from this site are from the United States Department of Agriculture.
The scale of these images is 1:38,000.
To download image(s), navigate the map below and click on an area of interest. A pop-up will provide a download link for the (zipped) aerial photo that covers the area. Note that there may be multiple images that cover the location clicked. The images are not georeferenced.

Alternatively, view a complete list of links to the aerial photo images and approximate bounding coordinates.
The images available for download are of higher quality than those shown in the index.
The index is not available at the highest zoom levels. If you zoom in too far and the index image disappears, just zoom out or reload the page.

About This Map

This map was created by georeferencing and tiling images of the indexes that came with the aerial photos. Scans of the indexes are also available for download:

The map shows the approximate bounding boxes of individual aerial photos in the Libraries' collection. The bounding boxes are shown on top of the index maps that came with the aerial photos.

The image name, latitude/longitude coordinates of the approximate bounding box for each image, and download URL is provided below for accessibility purposes:

Image	Northwest Coordinates	Southeast Coordinates	URL
172-16	-78.818145, 35.985687	-78.720954, 35.902156	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-16.zip
172-18	-78.815559, 36.041019	-78.718368, 35.957546	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-18.zip
172-20	-78.81459, 36.099056	-78.717399, 36.015647	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-20.zip
172-33	-78.883483, 36.265087	-78.786293, 36.181854	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-33.zip
172-35	-78.884933, 36.209259	-78.787742, 36.125968	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-35.zip
172-37	-78.887199, 36.153785	-78.790008, 36.070434	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-37.zip
172-39	-78.888816, 36.100883	-78.791626, 36.017478	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-39.zip
172-4	-78.759933, 36.062851	-78.662742, 35.979404	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-4.zip
172-41	-78.889785, 36.04507	-78.792594, 35.961605	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-41.zip
172-43	-78.889305, 35.991184	-78.792114, 35.907657	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-43.zip
172-45	-78.890434, 35.937126	-78.793243, 35.853546	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-45.zip
172-56	-78.958557, 35.928508	-78.861366, 35.844917	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-56.zip
172-58	-78.953506, 35.981891	-78.856315, 35.898357	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-58.zip
172-6	-78.764297, 36.004005	-78.667106, 35.920494	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-6.zip
172-60	-78.946228, 36.034874	-78.849037, 35.951396	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-60.zip
172-62	-78.944931, 36.09069	-78.84774, 36.007274	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-62.zip
172-64	-78.948005, 36.147254	-78.850814, 36.0639	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-64.zip
172-66	-78.956573, 36.20182	-78.859382, 36.118522	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-66.zip
172-68	-78.958839, 36.256218	-78.861648, 36.172977	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-68.zip
172-78	-79.011367, 36.258461	-78.914176, 36.17522	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-78.zip
172-80	-79.010604, 36.201389	-78.913421, 36.118087	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-80.zip
172-82	-79.010864, 36.147747	-78.913673, 36.064388	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-82.zip
172-84	-79.010353, 36.091205	-78.913162, 36.007789	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-84.zip
172-86	-79.010604, 36.040962	-78.913421, 35.957489	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-86.zip
172-88	-79.014907, 35.989662	-78.917717, 35.906135	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-88.zip
172-90	-79.023498, 35.935054	-78.926307, 35.85147	https://cdn.lib.unc.edu/gis-usda/data/durham/1972/tifs/172-90.zip

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